On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > I was sure that there was an iso method, which output the iso formatted > date. > > rbowen@rhiannon:~% perl -MDate::ISO -le 'my $d=Date::ISO->new( epoch => > time ); print $d->iso;' > 2001-W44-6 > > Unfortunately, the "default" ISO date format is this year-week-day > format. At least that's what I gathered from all the web sites that I > read about this format.
This site <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html> seems to differ and claims that the default is YYYY-MM-DD. Maybe this was changed from YYYY-WW-DD in later editions of the standard. Unfortunately I can't check against the standard itself, cos ISO don't publish them online. Ain't it great working against proprietary standards :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation. -- Johnny Hart
