Quoting Flavio Tordini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
hi craig,
thank you for your answer. i think the date formats to use are those in
ISO 8601.
see: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
maybe the converter could be added to the beanutils codebase but not used by default by ConvertUtils. what do you think?
That is one of at least twenty different formats for dates and times that people
like to use (and would be pretty user-unfriendly in a locale that likes
dd/mm/yyyy formatted dates). It doesn't seem reasonable to pick just one, so
I'd prefer to let applications that want to use a particular format to register
their own.
i probably support adding an ISO 8601 compatible convertor to beanutils. ISO 8601 is not only a standard but also one which is commonly used. (i'd thought about creating one before but i became concerned about copyright usage and trademark issues.) adding a convertor based on that w3c NOTE seems very reasonable to me. in addition, the basic date related datatypes used in (w3c flavoured) xml schema is also based on ISO8601 and are similar to those in the NOTE so it would be useful for processing xml documents.
if the worry is that adding this would establish an unhelpful precedent, then maybe we could add it as an optional class.
- robert
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