On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:04:18 +0200 Alexander Teinum <atei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose > > from. > > I was thinking about that exact sentence while writing the sentence > that you quoted. We need more quotes about standards to choose from… > and fewer standards. ISO 8601 is the last standard we'll ever need for textual formats for dates and times. They thought of *every* big-endian format you could ever possibly want to use, and then they kept right on thinking! My favorite human-readable ISO-8601-derived format is YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.fffff-tz:tz:tz.fffff (I don't think they actually allowed seconds or fractional seconds in timezones, but some old European timezone needs them (possibly in Finland?)). Robert Ransom
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