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: Re: Emacs Lisp date/time functions and RFC 3339? Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 18:54:28 -0800 Message-ID: <17747.59876.83345.935097@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <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 1163127442 15031 80.91.229.2 (10 Nov 2006 02:57:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:57:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: raman@users.sf.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 10 03:57:19 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 1GiMXX-0003rx-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:54:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GiMXX-0005Us-6x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GiMXL-0005UI-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GiMXK-0005U2-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GiMXJ-0005Tz-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:54:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.148.227.155] (helo=rwcrmhc15.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GiMXG-0003ud-Nf; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:54:30 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (c-71-202-191-236.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.202.191.236]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc15) with ESMTP id <20061110025428m1500bqo23e>; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:54:28 +0000 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1C27312A40CC; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 18:54:28 -0800 (PST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: 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:62018 Archived-At: RFC 3339 is used by the Atom Publishing Protocol and friends. Its primary characteristics gleened from the RFC: A) Simple, Unambiguous B) Sorting values with standard lexical sort does the write thing Examples: 2006-11-09T18:52:00-08:00 The same with an optional fractional seconds part: 2006-11-09T18:52:00.000-08:00 The only optional part in the format is the fractional seconds. You can also write just a date, i.e. no time part, or just a time. TZ can also be specified as [zZ] - >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman writes: Richard> defines a simplified/unambiguous date/time Richard> format that I'm running into more and more on the Richard> Web. Richard> Richard> What does that format look like? Richard> Richard> Is there interest other than just me in getting Richard> some of this into the core date/time libraries for Richard> Emacs? Richard> Richard> If people are using it, we certainly want to support Richard> -- 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