Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[Dave Cross]

At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:23:59 +0000, Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:43 20/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
> 
> >Which is the ISO standard (number 8601) for dates for a very good
> >reason.
> 
> I thought I'd look this up, but the BSI want 50 quid for a copy.
> 
> I appreciate this is how they make money to fund the standards work 
> but it seems a tad steep for the casual viewer such as myself.
> 
> Anyone know of a free online resource ?

Well I got the info from this great Perl book called "Data Munging 
with Perl", but I happen to know that the author was just given the
info in an email and didn't bother to check his facts :-/

This site seems to confirm it tho: 

<http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm>

Dave...