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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.
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>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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