Ihor, Sterling, et al., just a thought/reminder. there are "semantics" and "encoding". a spec like ISO-8601 specifies both. the important thing for org-mode is to use an encoding that
1. is easily parsable/understandable by the mere mortal 2. allows expression of all the semantics of the underlying spec/specs (be that ISO-8601, this new IETF spec, the Library of Congress spec, etc.) 3. and, importantly, is designed to *try* to follow updates to the underlying spec/specs (which will inevitably happen) in my experience, it is easiest to accomplish 2 and 3 by adopting the encoding in the underlying spec/specs (if "specs" -- hopefully they are compatible! :) but, i don't doubt that other encodings that accomplish 1, and still accomplish 2 and 3, exist. possibly, an important step forward is to complete the sentence, "Org-mode datestamps are intended to conform to the semantics (but not necessarily the encoding) specified in the following specifications: ...". cheers, Greg
