In a message dated 2/27/2005 4:57:10 P.M. Central Standard Time, johnmsteele@... writes: How do you envision these being useful, because I'm not seeing...
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ISO-8601 5.4 Quote "NOTE By Mutual agreement of the partners in information interchange, the character (T) may be omitted..." From this I understand that the...
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In a message dated 2/27/2005 6:42:12 P.M. Central Standard Time, PIEBALDconsult@... writes: Indeed they are not (or may not be) regular intervals, but...
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Herman, Either email me privately or ask your questions to the list. It is poor form to shout my name in a crowded room to get my attention. Besides I am no...
In a message dated 3/1/2005 4:17:36 A.M. Central Standard Time, tex@... writes: Herman, Either email me privately or ask your questions to the list....
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5.3.1.3 (of 2000-12-19 draft) states: ". . . and the decimal fraction shall be divided from the integer part by the decimal sign . . ." and goes on to allow...
You get it by calculating. ISO8601 is about notation for transmitting with no explanatory text around it. Are you asking how the calculation is done? Generally...
In a message dated 3/1/2005 8:03:44 A.M. Central Standard Time, johnmsteele@... writes: Are you asking how the calculation is done? Generally the year...
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In a message dated 3/1/2005 8:03:56 A.M. Central Standard Time, johnmsteele@... writes: If it is only for computers, a single unit, whether Julian days...
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... Let's see: This is case 5.5.1(d) and consists of two components, a duration and an end: "P1W" means a period of one week "-W-7T01:00" means Sunday of an...
Over 50% of the bits in the YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss format bits are not significance to a sort or index.. The operations department were I worked as a consultant...
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Mar 2, 2005 3:35 am
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Don't know which side to believe. IBM's DB2 use a format ISO date. Microsoft and Oracle do not. This is a reason for their better performance. Most of you...
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I don't. But you've never clearly stated what the application was. 8601 is intended for data interchange and to include human and machine readability. It is...
Indeed, the first thing the application should do with a date/time string in any text format is to convert it to a useable datatype. But don't fault a...
In a message dated 3/1/2005 10:11:52 P.M. Central Standard Time, johnmsteele@... writes: don't. But you've never clearly stated what the application...
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Hi All, is there any c/c++ implementation for ISO 8601 available freely on Internet?? Regards Ajay Kumar Kasam Infineon Technologies...
Hi All, "CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss where CC denotes the century, YY denotes the year, MM denotes the month, DD denotes the day, T is the date/time separator, and hh,...
First of all, you're looking at an old version of ISO 8601. The latest version(s) all use YYYY as a 4-digit year, MM as a 2-digit month, and DD as a 2-digit...
In a message dated 3/14/2005 5:24:20 P.M. Central Standard Time, kasamajay@... writes: is the delimiter 't' acceptable?? is it mandatory to have 'T' as...
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... No. If it were, the standard would say so. ... No. The standard says it may be omitted (5.4.1, Note). However, it is recommended, especially if omitting...
... Are there any other reasons than esthetical to use any non-recommended delimiter? Some seem to prefer a space for esthetical reasons. Eventual additional ...
... <shouting to the hard of hearing> READ SECTIONS 4.4, 4.5, 4.8, AND 5.1.2 !! (Going from the 2000 version anyway) </shouting to the hard of hearing> The...
This question of lowercase T has gotten far more attention than it deserved, esp. since there was no reason offered why a lowercase should be needed or...
In Section 4.5 (2000 version): [#] (number sign): to separate in the representation of a recurring time-interval the time-interval and the recurrence factor. ...
My guess is that they originally defined the components with recurrance last. Note the very clumsy wording of paragraphs 5.6.1 a, c, and d. The first sentence...
The newly released version of the ISO Standard for Representation of dates and times (8601:2005) includes a new section 5.3.5. Based upon Resolution B7 on the...
I'm sure astronmers everywhere would have preferred Julian Days, ie 245 3461.500 John Hynes <john@...> wrote: The new version of the ISO 8601 standard is...
... Astronomers also use Gregorian dates, in year-month-day order, with the fractional day added to the ordinal day of month. For instance, the standard epoch...