Re: parse-datetime: cannot handle ISO-8601 strings

[Simon Josefsson]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 01/02/2011 02:40 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Is this intentional somehow?
>
> I'm afraid it was originally, as T meant the
> military time zone T.  No doubt this should get
> revisited at some point, as military time zone
> letters are pretty much obsolete.
>
> ISO 8601 strings like 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
> are quite ugly, which is part of the reason
> I never got around to attacking this
> backward-compatibility issue myself.

Ok, thanks for explanation.  Reason I noticed this is that I wanted to
use a standard format in automated testing and for quoting reasons
preferred to use string that didn't contain whitespace.  It would be
nice to see this fixed, but meanwhile I'm using the @4711 notation
instead.

/Simon