[rdfweb-dev] action: date of birth proposals

[Benjamin Nowack]

On 29.09.2004 09:26:54, Tony Bowden wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:10:00AM +0200, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
>> I also like that both properties are useful in isolation. Birthday 
>> tells you when to congratulate. YearOfBirth tells you the age. Very 
>> natural. 
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>Erm? 
>
>You can't tell age just from year of birth ...
But I'd say you can tell it in a "sufficiently precise" way for
the majority of related use cases. If I see someone with a
yearOfBirth=1973, wouldn't that be sufficiently precise for
saying that we have the same age, no matter if (s)he is still
30 or already 31?

benjamin

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