[uf-dev] The correct format of a ISO date
Mark Norman Francis
norm at cackhanded.net
Fri May 23 11:51:14 PDT 2008
>> 07-05-01 (equals 2007-05-01)
>> 070501 (equals 2007-05-01)
>
> Thanks for these examples. Although the current version of Cognition
> parses these dates correctly, it marks the "resolution" of the dates
> as being "month" (because they only have 6 numeric digits), so when
> outputting them will only output the year and month even though it
> knows the day internally. :-( Fix in the next release.
Actually, according to the Wikipedia page on ISO 8601:
> ISO 8601 prescribes, as a minimum, a four-digit year [YYYY] to avoid
> the year 2000 problem.
Not having a personal copy of 8601 to check, I can't verify this, but
it seems wise to me. ;)
-- Norm.
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