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Re: long-term standards

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, David Starner wrote:
> A standard lasting six thousand years is actually quite impressive.

Do we have any example of such a standard? The Calendar FAQ claims that
our (mod 7) week numbering scheme has been running uninterrupted since the
times of Moses (~-1400), which - if true - would come somewhat close.

http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/node6.html#SECTION00640000000000000000

Apart from that? Other standards seem far newer: Julian calendar -44,
Gregorian calendar 1582, the metric system 1875, A4 paper 1921, ASCII
1965, ISO 8859 1986, UCS 1991, etc.

Markus

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