[phobos] datetime review (new attempt at URL)

[Steve Schveighoffer]

Yes, that is a good point, use a standardized one.

I actually don't have too much care what the format is, as long as it's simple 
and can convey all the information.

-Steve



----- Original Message ----
> From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 4:46:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] datetime review (new attempt at URL)
> 
> On 2010-10-14, at 16:17, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it  is.  But at the end of the day, without including a gigantic locale 

> > library, we need to standardize on a simple way of printing dates and  times 
>for 
>
> > debugging (i.e. via toString).  My suggestion is simply  to pick one and say 

> > "this is it, if you want something different, use a  locale library".  I'd 
>prefer 
>
> > it to be my locale, but as long as  it's *something*, it should be fine.
> 
> If you have to pick one, please pick  an ISO-compilant one, like YYYY-MM-DD 
>hh:mm:ss.fff. It's the least ambiguous  format, is pretty readable, and as a 
>bonus you can sort them as strings to put  them in chronological order. Beside, 
>this ordering of date components is used  for SQL, HTML5, and the xs:dateTime 
>base type for XML schemas, and probably many  other places.
> 
> -- 
> Michel Fortin
> michel.fortin at michelf.com
> http://michelf.com/
> 
> 
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