On Fri, 09 May 2014 09:56:09 +0000 Kagamin via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@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