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Article #500Re: What time is it? [Was: Data compression standard]
From: Larry Campbell
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 00:16
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 00:16
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I believe there is an ISO standard (sorry, don't know the number). It's very simple. Dates and times are represented as a string of 12 to 16 decimal digits: YYYYMMDDHHMMSSHH where the last two digits represent hundredths of a second; I believe the seconds, and hundredths of seconds, are optional. You could, of course, add as many trailing digits as you like, if you need to achieve nanosecond precision, without ambiguity. This format is completely unambiguous, is easily understood by both humans and computers, sorts easily, is not Anglocentric, and is compact. Of course, the time represented is assumed to be UTC, so no time zone decorations are required. Your user interface software should know how to display this in the local time zone, in the local language. -- Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc., 120 Fulton Street campbell@redsox.bsw.com Boston, Massachusetts 02109 (USA)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!redsox!campbell From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: What time is it? [Was: Data compression standard] Message-ID: <1991Jun25.001607.28886@redsox.bsw.com> Date: 25 Jun 91 00:16:07 GMT References: <859@spam.ua.oz> <3761@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> <shores.677707660@fergvax> Reply-To: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc. Lines: 20