I know there are a gazillion different ways to specify the timezone, but one I see commonly that isn't covered to my knowledge is `X` from ISO 8601. E.g., how you print Dates in zulu time: 2014-05-28T16:46:04Z.
I'm very much looking forward to the new Dates.jl. Thanks Jacob! On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:38:11 AM UTC-4, Jacob Quinn wrote: > > I'm doing a round of improvements for Date and DateTime parsing/formatting > and I'd love to make the test coverage much more robust. I've built the > tests around many common cases already, but I'd love to see any more > esoteric or possibly tricky cases to make sure the code holds. A great > example was Jiahao's example using Chinese character separators: > > date("2009年12月01日") > > > Anyway, I figured there are quite a few developers out there who run into > date/datetime strings every so often, so if you wouldn't mind sharing on > this thread, I'd appreciate the additional "real world" test cases. > > -Jacob > > Current set of tests: > https://github.com/karbarcca/Dates.jl/blob/master/test/test_io.jl >