[uf-discuss] Date-time formats in hCalendar

Peter Saint-Andre stpeter at jabber.org
Wed Aug 23 19:31:24 PDT 2006


On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:15:46PM -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> I've noticed that RFC2445 requires the date-time format to have no punctuation, eg. 
> 
>  yyyymmddThhmmss
> 
> The  hCalendar examples on http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar#Example have 
> punctuation, eg. 
> 
>   yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss
> 
> which is more like RFC3339 (and better for both humans and machines, IMHO -- the 
> timezone descriptors in RFC2445 are awful!)

A big +1 to RFC 3339 and ISO 8601!

Peter



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