ISO Date (was: parser for xml-data?)
Michael Kay (M.H.Kay@eng.icl.co.uk)
Mon, 11 May 1998 10:40:18 +0100
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].
Mike Kay