On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Patrick R. Michaud<pmich...@pobox.com> wrote: \> Unfortunately, the .rpm format doesn't allow hyphens in package > version numbers, so we probably need to switch to something different. > The "obvious" choices would be things like "2009.07" or "200907", > but neither of those represent valid ISO8601 formatted dates (the > hyphened version is a valid date).
Not true. Most delimiters are optional according to ISO-8601, including the hyphens between date components, the "T" between date and time, and the colons between time components. Offhand, the only mandatory delimiter I can think of is the "W" used with week-based dates to distinguish them from month-based ones. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
