From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "T. V. Raman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Emacs Lisp date/time functions and RFC 3339? Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:34:03 -0800 Message-ID: <17746.41387.298537.794187@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Reply-To: raman@users.sf.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163043261 1357 80.91.229.2 (9 Nov 2006 03:34:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 03:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 09 04:34:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gi0gD-0001tQ-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:34:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gi0gC-0002Zd-PT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:34:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gi0g1-0002Z0-Nk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gi0g1-0002Yf-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gi0g0-0002Yc-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [63.240.77.81] (helo=sccrmhc11.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gi0g0-0000AW-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (c-71-202-191-236.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.202.191.236]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2006110903340301100cg79ne>; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 03:34:03 +0000 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 57A2712A40CC; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:34:03 -0800 (PST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.90.4 x-attribution: tvr X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:61990 Archived-At: RFC 3339 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt defines a simplified/unambiguous date/time format that I'm running into more and more on the Web. The date/time handling functions in Emacs --- calendar/time-date.el, together with the primitives for encode-time and decode-time do not handle this format well, nor does format-time-string. Is there interest other than just me in getting some of this into the core date/time libraries for Emacs? Note: this is not something that needs to be checked in before releasing Emacs 22; on the other hand, if implemented, it would be benign with respect to the rest of Emacs as it stands at present. -- Best Regards, --raman Email: raman@users.sf.net WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk: tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs