At 6:36p +0000 06/27/97, Misha Wolf wrote:
other, separated by our favourite character. If "*" represents our favourite character, we get:
1994-11-05*08:15:30-05:00
instead of:
1994-11-05T08:15:30-05:00
The problem with this solution is precisely that it is a trick. In reality, we are dealing with a single date-with-time and it confuses things to pretend that we're not. Also, there must be lots of software out there which is ISO 8601-conformant and would choke on our favourite character.
I suggest we decide that this stuff isn't primarily for human consumption and make use of it, warts and all.
If it's not for human consumption, why even bother with the hyphens? "19941105" contains all the essential data from "1994-11-05". It's pretty clear that the hyphens are there only for humans, although in either case there is the assumption of a Gregorian calendar (which leads me to wonder why we don't have a code for calendar system...). __________________________________________________________________________ Walter Ian Kaye <boo_at_best*com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript, Mountain View, CA ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML http://www.natural-innovations.com/ Musician - Guitarist, Songwriter