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Re: time and date



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At 03:58 PM 11/25/97 +0100, Zooko Journeyman wrote:
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>I found this useful reference on the web:
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>http://www.ft.uni-erlangen.de/~mskuhn/iso-time.html
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>
>I suggest following ISO 8601:1988 and adding optional, 
>arbitrary-precision decimal seconds, e.g.
>
>
>YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss{.s+}

We used "_" for " " but otherwise this *is* our format.
Is that one character difference a big deal to you?

>I question the wisdom of limiting the range of the spec
>merely in order to prevent people from allowing their
>precision to exceed their accuracy.

Here I have to plead guilty.  I spent some of my formative years doing 
performance analysis with rigorous adherence to Statistics practices, where 
using more digits in a report than the process precision allowed was an 
unforgiveable sin.

 - Carl

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