Explanation of the ISO “Fast-Track” process

ISO standards process explained

Doug Mahugh — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:35:31 GMT

Brian Jones has posted an overview of ISO Fast-Track certification that explains the various stages of

re: Explanation of the ISO “Fast-Track” process

Daniel — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:21:11 GMT

Nice job!

Next, try to construct some excuses for not using the ISO date format, non-documented backward-compatible feature that no one can implement, etc....

re: Explanation of the ISO “Fast-Track” process

BrianJones — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:39:47 GMT

Daniel,

SpreadsheetML Dates: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/10/25/spreadsheetml-dates.aspx

Application Settings: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2007/01/09/specifying-the-document-settings.aspx

-Brian

re: Explanation of the ISO “Fast-Track” process

hAl — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:53:35 GMT

@Daniel

If you can support ISO 8601 formats in spreadsheet then please explain how you would handle this example:

Spreadsheets generally use an internal format for date calculations. It would be very difficult to maintain integrity between such an internal format and an ISO standard representaion in de document file.

For instance when two date are subtracted in ISO that leaves a 'period' it would

be something that is very weird implementing into a spreadsheet.

Example

Cel a contains 20070214T131031

Cel b contains 20070214T131030

Cel c contains 20070214T131030/20070214T131031

These are all correct ISO 8601 where in cell c there is effectivly a 1 second

'period' that corresponds with the difference between cell a and cell b.

In an internal spreadsheet formula format that would represent as:

Cel a 39127,548969907400

Cel b 39127,548958333300

Cel c 0,000011574113

This is an example of the internal Excel 1900 date format where in cell c also

is a 1 second period that corresponds with the difference in cell a and cell b.

However it is virtually impossible to go from ISO to internal format and then

convert back to ISO without data loss.

File Formats on the Colbert Report (sort of)

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:49:25 GMT

There's something odd about working on a feature in Office that one of the last things any average user

OpenXML links to wrap up January ‘07

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:35:40 GMT

I had a few interesting articles I thought folks might be interested in: Miguel de Icaza – The EU Prosecutors

re: Explanation of the ISO “Fast-Track” process

James Susanka — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:03:36 GMT

"For instance, OpenOffice will soon have support for ODF and OpenXML."

when will office have ODF support?

surely a company with the resources of yours can implement such an inferior standard as ODF.

re: Explanation of the ISO “Fast-Track” process

BrianJones — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:06:10 GMT

James: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/07/05/657510.aspx

re: Explanation of the ISO “Fast-Track” process

nyme — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:27:39 GMT

ok microsoft is trying to keep big organisation with office ...the odf format is a honest way to let concurrency betwen different actor, but microsoft doesn't want concurrency , just corruption an intrigue to get more money ..

Andy Updegrove's Indian Fantasy

Doug Mahugh — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:34:06 GMT

This morning, in my usual routine, I sipped a cup of coffee while reading the latest news around the

Questions on Open XML

Wouter van Vugt — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:43:43 GMT

For those of you not only reading my blog, but also the other content provided by the Info Support blog

Предложение Microsoft по формату документов Open XML не было принято ISO

Сергей Орлик (Sergey Orlik) — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:39:36 GMT

Голосование ISO по предложению Microsoft придать Open XML статус стандарта закончилось 2-го сентября.