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Date Normalization Script

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Author: Jason Casden casden@gmail.com; release date: Aug. 2002. This is a Perl script that will normalize dates in an existing finding aid to ISO 8601. It reads in the content of a unitdate; element, then creates and inserts a normal ="" attribute. It is still in the beta test version, so comments are welcome. The script will work with most date formats familiar to archivists. Any unrecognized date formats cause the script to pause, and prompt the encoder to enter the normalized form of the date. This will create the normal ="" attribute, while leaving the displaying date in the "nonstandard" format. Please note that it has only been tested in Windows with ActivePerl 5.8.3.809. It requires the XML::Twig and HTML::Entities modules. After saving the file on a Windows machine, you might need to add the extension ".pl" to the script in order for it to run.
http://monkey.org/~caz/TRI-scripts/tri-XMLdate-normalizer.pl
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109785 says:
games

スポーツ観戦が日常の楽しみですが、最近は パリマッチ を使うことで幅広い大会を一度にチェックできるようになりました。Jリーグから国際大会まで対応していて、入出金方法も多様です。日本語サポートがあるので安心して利用できます。

Submitted by 109785 on September 4, 2025 - 9:33am.
109619 says:
Software development issues

I can imagine how important this script is. When it comes to programming, technical assets, and IT security, literally every comma matters. Because if you lose this small symbol, the whole thing may go wrong. So what I would also recommend, is to check with professional software development guys, for instances, I know those who did game engineering outsourcing for our firm, they know what they are doing, and I can even think more creatively: they can write a small interactive interface for your archives, let's say, for iPhone use. That will be quite handy.

Submitted by 109619 on July 17, 2025 - 3:08am.
Updated: 2019-05-16