Re: ISO Date (was: parser for xml-data?)

Edward C. Zimmermann (edz@bsn.com)
Mon, 11 May 1998 13:51:48 +0200 (MET DST)

>
> Rick Jelliffe:
> >Also note that the usage of ISO 8601 date formats seems to
> be wrong.
> >ISO 8601 date format is yyyy-mm-dd, e.g. 1998-05-09, and
> not 19980509,
> >last time I looked.
>
> It allows both. The first form is preferred where the text
> is intended to be human-readable, but the second is
> permitted where it is primarily for machine use. [That's
> from memory, I don't have the spec to hand].

ISO date formats:
YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS[Z]
YYYYMMDDTHH:MM:SS[Z]
YYYY-MM-DDTHHMMSS[Z]
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS[Z] (eg. 1996-07-16T13:19:51Z)

Z := UTC (aka GMT) else unspecified (resp. local)
>
> Mike Kay
>
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