The Current Status of DQt

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon May 12 02:59:26 PDT 2014


On Fri, 09 May 2014 09:56:09 +0000
Kagamin via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> > Please see this public service announcement:
> > http://xkcd.com/1179/
>
> Though it lists 20130227 as discouraged format, but it's a valid
> ISO 8601 format, and phobos Date.toISOString generates string in
> that format:
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime.html#.Date.toISOString

Yes, it's supported, because it's standard, but it's preferred that
toISOExtString be used precisely because the non-extended format is not only
discouraged, but it's harder to read (which is probably why it's discouraged).

- Jonathan M Davis


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