... 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...
1789
Vincent Lefevre
vinc17fr
Jul 11, 2006 9:45 pm
... 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...
1790
John Hynes
johndhynes
Jul 12, 2006 10:54 am
... 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...
1791
piebaldconsult
Jul 12, 2006 2:43 pm
... 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...
1792
John Hynes
johndhynes
Jul 13, 2006 8:33 am
... 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...
1793
John Hynes
johndhynes
Jul 13, 2006 8:45 am
... or April 6, 2020. Since two-digit years are not permitted, the latter two are no longer valid. I have removed them from the article. John Hynes...
1794
piebaldconsult
Jul 13, 2006 11:52 pm
... Good, thanks....
1795
piebaldconsult
Jul 14, 2006 12:03 am
... I suggest others in this group take a look as well, especially you in Texas....
1796
Michael Deckers
michaeldeckers
Jul 14, 2006 7:54 pm
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:...
1797
Michael Deckers
michaeldeckers
Jul 14, 2006 8:18 pm
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. ...
1798
piebaldconsult
Jul 15, 2006 12:31 am
... 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...
1799
piebaldconsult
Jul 15, 2006 12:59 am
... 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...
1800
John Hynes
johndhynes
Jul 16, 2006 12:33 am
... 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...
1801
John Hynes
johndhynes
Jul 16, 2006 1:35 am
... I hit send accidently, before I finished editing the date string. I'll have to make a script. John Hynes 2006-07-16T01:10:32Z...
1802
John Hynes
johndhynes
Jul 16, 2006 4:46 am
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...
1803
Pete Forman
pete_forman
Jul 17, 2006 10:06 am
... 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...
1804
piebaldconsult
Jul 17, 2006 6:49 pm
... 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...
1805
John Hynes
johndhynes
Jul 17, 2006 9:44 pm
... 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...
1806
Tex Texin
textexin
Jul 18, 2006 10:28 am
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:...
1807
piebaldconsult
Jul 19, 2006 3:59 pm
... 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...
1808
Fred Bone
fjpbone
Jul 19, 2006 5:47 pm
... 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...
1809
Fred Bone
fjpbone
Jul 19, 2006 8:54 pm
... 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...
1810
piebaldconsult
Jul 20, 2006 2:32 am
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"...
1811
piebaldconsult
Sep 6, 2006 3:10 pm
Do the recent new members have no questions? Did the past posts and files answer the questions?...
1812
siddharthab19
Sep 13, 2006 11:20 am
On the Internet, the notation of times and dates has always been problematic. In particular, the format of Internet E-mail messages, as defined in 1982-08-13...
1813
Michael Deckers
michaeldeckers
Sep 13, 2006 11:22 am
... Sure we do. Here are some of mine on [ISO 8601:2004]: [a] In the notation of a time interval by its start and end, is there any requirement that the end...
1814
Bill Somebody-or-Other
dygituljunky
Sep 13, 2006 11:25 am
I see mentions of the date format YYYY-DDD and time formats that include decimal fractions of a second. Shall I assume that YYYY-DDD.fffff (where fffff is...
1815
contadino_usa
Sep 13, 2006 11:26 am
I work for a company which offers internet applications/services for commerce in an industrial setting. For many of the transactions, the delivery date is...
1816
NGUYEN Ivy
ali0917
Sep 13, 2006 5:46 pm
I believe astronomy could make good use of fractions of day. I often have wished an akternative time-of-day scheme would be decimal days, like 1999-12-31.5 for...
1817
johnmsteele
Sep 13, 2006 6:06 pm
... languages ... with ... ISO 8601 is an International standard and it specifies "W" as the character designator which must precede a week number. The date...
