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At 11:27 12/08/98 -0700, Don Park wrote: >Those of us working on the XLF (Extensible Log Format) are faced with the >issue of deciding on the timestamp format. I thought it would be prudent to >seek comments on the subject in general and specifically on use of the ISO >8601 standard from the XML-DEV members. Thanks very much for raising this, Don. It's an issue I suspect a lot of us are wrestling with. A communal solution would be extremely valuable. In general I suspect that most people using XLF are also going to be dealing with date/times in other contexts so XLF should be friendly to those. I also think that you can't necessarily rely on everyone converting to global time (e.g. people can transcribe the time from the log but may make mistakes when converting.) I wrote a date class for JUMBO using Java 1.02 and now it's broken because Java 1.1. uses a different approach which I still haven't figured out - it requires the use of Calendar, etc. [1]. (all the 1.02 methods are deprecated). Dates are trickier than they look and I wouldn't suggest that people wrote perl scripts to convert them. I would therefore always allow raw date-times as an option (in ISO 8601 format of course). P. [1] private help by e-mail gladly accepted :-) > Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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