- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:04:10 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Christoph P?per wrote: > > That (with the hyphens in dates and colons in times) is actually not the > basic, but the extended format. I have only ever read the 2000 version, > so please CMIIW, but AFAIK the 2004 edition basically removes many of > the truncated/implied and basic formats in favor of the more > human-friendly extended format, which many specificators favored anyhow, > like for instance <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime>. I think the > literal T in date-times was also removed in favor of the space, which > previously was only second choice. That W3C Note sadly does not endorse > fractional time (23,55 = 23:30:30) except for seconds, nor the week and > day based calendars (2005-W28-1, 2005-123), which ISO 8601:2004 retains. > Durations are cumbersome. Maybe we should make this reference informative... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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