Re: PDF date format

[Dan Eble]

> On Aug 13, 2015, at 09:52 , Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Looking inside PDF documents, the date is formatted like the one here:
> 
> D:20150813145047+01'00'
> 
> Does anyone know whether this style of abbreviation has a name?

According Adobe's PDF reference[1] section 3.8.3,

    PDF defines a standard date format, which closely follows
    that of the international standard ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax
    Notation One), defined in ISO/ IEC 8824 (see the Bibliography).
— 
Dan

[1] 
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf