I've submitted a revision of the date and time draft Chris Newman wrote some time ago.
This document defines a date and time format for use in Internet protocols that is a profile of the ISO 8601 [ISO8601] standard for representation of dates and times using the Gregorian calendar.
A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-impp-datetime-00.txt
But this document still references the old first edition! The one that counted accidentally minutes from 01 to 60 and similar nonsense, along with lots of ambiguities: [ISO8601] "Data elements and interchange formats -- Information interchange -- Representation of dates and times", ISO 8601:1988(E), International Organization for Standardization, June, 1988. The new second edition with lots of bug fixes, ISO 8601:2000, has been available since December and can be ordered online from http://www.iso.ch/cate/d26780.html Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>