Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!POSTEL@Usc-Isif.ARPA
From: POSTEL@Usc-Isif.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.mail.msggroup
Subject: re: user interfaces (identifier date time)
Message-ID: <440@hou3c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 21:03:39 EST
Article-I.D.: hou3c.440
Posted: Tue Apr  3 21:03:39 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Apr-84 02:42:25 EST
Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Lines: 20
To: msggroup@Brl-Aos.ARPA


Kirk:

GACK!  I hope i never see one of your concise time strings!  Even more,
i hope i never have to explain it to anyone!!

Why not use the ISO standards for date and time [ISO-2014, ISO-3307,
ISO-4031]?

The format is generally YYYY MM DD HH MM SS OM OS, with various separators.

The local time in Calcutta India of two hours nine minutes and twenty-three
seconds past noon on the third of February 1984 would be

                        1984-02-03-14:09:23-05:00
or
                        19840203140923-5000

--jon.
-------