Hi, > that's peculiar for that "standard" (vs the "extended" format). i'd keep it. > and another reason why i hate user-supplied formats (AKA choice). Keep the ":" by default seems the reasonable ting to do, but if you want to support tehat ISO standard we need some way of dropping it. I'd also assume it may be "." rather than ":" in some locales.
> for consistency i'd pad it. and 9:9 just doesn't "look" right (not that there > ever would be a 9 minute offset BUT politicians control timezones so who > knows). Padding minutes makes sense, but padding hours seem 50/50 re the various formats about. > according to this page it can be it can be "localized" ("HUA") OK thank - I'll need to look it up in supported locales. > ...and maybe tz ID could come after. One step at a time :-) > and just to be clear "Z" here refers to UTC? Yep but no conversion of time zones is performed this is just formatting at the moment anyway. Thanks, Justin