On 8 February 2013 11:00, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: >> 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates >> >> Webrev: >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8007392/ >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8007392/javadoc > > > I don't think you mention that the reference to ISO 8601 actually refers to > ISO 8601:1988 with Technical Corrigendum 1 applied. That would be ISO > 8601:1988/Cor.1:1991 (E). > > The original standard numbered hours from 1 to 24 and minutes and seconds > from 1 to 60, although it is somewhat self-contradictory in this area.
Just to note that the latest ISO-8601 is the 2004 version. Question is whether specifying a particular version is overly limiting on the specification (and we have never slavishly followed every last detail of the spec anyway). Stephen
