From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,34e6505a3616fb21 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-23 22:30:42 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!204.127.161.2.MISMATCH!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "David Thompson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <200103160849.JAA00680@bulgaria.otn.eurocopter.de> Subject: Re: calander package - Proposal for dates X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 06:27:21 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.89.134.236 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 985415241 12.89.134.236 (Sat, 24 Mar 2001 06:27:21 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 06:27:21 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6031 Date: 2001-03-24T06:27:21+00:00 List-Id: Hans-Olof Danielsson wrote : > I think there is an ISO standard for date and time format with one of the > formats being something like this: > 2001-03-16 10:25:29 > If there is such a standard format, it should be coverd by the package. ISO 8601. But it requires representations of date-and-time to have the date and time parts joined by a letter "T". Lots of people don't like this and do what you show, separate them by a space or other delimiter, but technically while this consists of conforming 8601 representations for date and time, it is NOT a conforming date-and-time representation. :-{ OTOH ANSI X3.135-1992 SQL does require "yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss" with a space. Standards are such fun. -- - David.Thompson 1 now at worldnet.att.net