In article <mailman.473.1347317852.27098.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Rhodri James > <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:14:30 +0100, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > > > >> In article <mailman.323.1346961101.27098.python-l...@python.org>, > >> Thomas Jollans <t...@jollybox.de> wrote: > >> > >>> The ISO date/time format is dead simple and well-defined. > > > > > >> Well defined, perhaps. But nobody who has read the standard could call > >> it "dead simple". ISO-8601-2004(E) is 40 pages long. > > > > > > A short standard, then :-) > > What is it that takes up forty pages? RFC 2822 describes a date/time > stamp in about two pages. In fact, the whole RFC describes the > Internet Message Format in not much more than 40 pages. Is > ISO-language just bloated? > > *boggle* You can find a copy at http://dotat.at/tmp/ISO_8601-2004_E.pdf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
