On 7/30/09 5:05 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:47:36PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Patrick R. Michaud<pmich...@pobox.com> wrote:
\> Unfortunately, the .rpm format doesn't allow hyphens in package
version numbers, so we probably need to switch to something different.
The "obvious" choices would be things like "2009.07" or "200907",
but neither of those represent valid ISO8601 formatted dates (the
hyphened version is a valid date).
Not true. Most delimiters are optional according to ISO-8601,
including the hyphens between date components, the "T" between date
and time, and the colons between time components.
The hyphen is not optional when only the day-of-month has been omitted.
See ISO 8601:2004 section 4.1.2.3 ("Representations with reduced
date accuracy") [1]:
Does it really matter? Can you envisage a circumstance under which
someone would want to use an ISO date parsing program to decode parrot
tarball names?
