... values will be stored in a single field, though another separator may be chosen with discretion. A space is a popular allowed human readable alternative. ...
... What are the sections in 2004 which state this? Is the wording exactly the same as 2000? I want to figure out how this misunderstanding arose and get it...
... The files section for this group on Yahoo! has a summary of differences between ISO8601:2000 and :2004. It is called ISO8601diff.doc I believe that there...
... 2000's section 4.4 says " The space character shall not be used in the representations. " 2004's section 3.4.1 says " Unless explicitly allowed by this...
... The article says nothing of the sort. It just states that a space is part of the standard. There are a number of examples of supposedly standard dates...
... OK, I just read it, it's horrible. Many incorrect statements, too many to correct. There is no substitute for reading the actual standard. Perhaps we...
... Yep, but this is not specific to the ISO 8601 standard. If you want to know what a standard says, read the standard. For instance, this is particularly...
... I disagree that there are too many to correct. They are all correctable. The article isn't even that long, as Wikipedia goes. Perhaps if you listed the...
... The thing shouldn't even be as large as it is, it should give just a brief summary and provide links to the actual document. There is also a box farther...
... Why not rewrite it? It happens all the time. It appears that you already have rewritten much of the article. I don't think that a new entry would be...
John Hynes wrote about the separator 'T' betweeeen the date ... Right: a datetime notation such as 1981-04-05 14:30-05 is composed of _two_ ISO8601 notations:...
On 2006-07-13, John Hynes wrote, first ... Nor is the former. The ISO 8601 notation 200406 can mean the time of day 20:04:06, but it cannot mean any date. ...
... It would be poor style to put _two_ values in one field, but yes, if you do it's OK. Just remember that the two values with the intervening space or...
... As the section of the entry concerned dates I didn't bother mentioning the possibility of it being a time value. As to whether or not the year 200406...
... Unfortunately, this is not what the article stated. It specifically stated that the T designator may be replaced by a space or underscore in combined...
I write a little JavaScript function to print the combined format ISO 8601 calendar date. You can plug the following function into your JavaScript code, for...
... In general there should be three parts: date, time, and zone designator. Leave aside the case of local time where the zone designator is empty. The ZD...
... Actually only with the time, which is somewhat of a shortcoming of ISO 8601. ... No, it can't. ... I was just trying to get in touch with one of my...
... This does not seem to be supported by the wording of the standard. The the zone designator is used only with time of the day representations or combined...
I agree with John. tex _____ From: ISO8601@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ISO8601@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Hynes Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 2:44 PM To:...
... in ... ISO ... and ... Ah, here's the quote, I found it on http://www.sysprog.net/quotes.html " The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of...
... Yes, it's in his "Computer Networks". It continues something like "And if you don't like what's on offer this year, just wait and there'll be more along...
... Found it, of course, next time I went to the book: "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like...
Good, thanks. The point is that if you don't follow ISO 8601 (or any other standard) exactly then you simply aren't following the standard. "Almost compliant"...
