--- Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to be able to extract hhmmss from the plausible ISO8601
> date/time formats, you should use something like this:
> timefromiso=: (8+i.6) { ([-.-.)&'0123456789'
>
> Note that this does not include the ':' characters in the timestamp
> (since they are optional under ISO 8601).
>
> Note that there are still things in that standard which this doesn't
> support (for example some interval formats), but at some point
> you have to step away from the idea that if there's a standard
> you have to use it.
What if date part is incomplete yet plausible?
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