Re: [PATCH] Unify human represented timestamp formats.

Karl Fogel wrote:
> I wish I understood the motivation for the T better. It doesn't
> make the date string any more automatically parseable than a space
> would, but does make it less readable to the eye. What's the use?

Um, consider the following:
19930214T131013
vs.
19930214131013
vs.
19930214 131013

Or, another variation (signifying the 45th day of year 1993):
1993045T131013
vs.
1993045131013
vs.
1993045 131013

So the motivation (I guess) is that when the compact formats are used,
'T' specifies that the part after that in fact is a time and the part
before that is a date. Otherwise it might be very ambiguous with all
the different methods ISO-8601 allows for representation.

And if we have the 'T' for the compact format, why not have it for the
complete representations as well? But like said everywhere, if
ambiguity can be avoided, the usage of 'T' is not mandatory.

> Something of a bikeshed <shrug>. But if we can just use one stringy
> time format, for both storage and human presentation, that's a win.

We can't, see other mail.

-- Naked

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Received on Sat Jun 22 22:16:55 2002