Yes, that is a good point, use a standardized one. I actually don't have too much care what the format is, as long as it's simple and can convey all the information.
-Steve ----- Original Message ---- > From: Michel Fortin <[email protected]> > To: Discuss the phobos library for D <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 4:46:38 PM > Subject: Re: [phobos] datetime review (new attempt at URL) > > On 2010-10-14, at 16:17, Steve Schveighoffer wrote: > > > Yes, it is. But at the end of the day, without including a gigantic > > locale > > library, we need to standardize on a simple way of printing dates and > > times >for > > > debugging (i.e. via toString). My suggestion is simply to pick one and > > say > > "this is it, if you want something different, use a locale library". I'd >prefer > > > it to be my locale, but as long as it's *something*, it should be fine. > > If you have to pick one, please pick an ISO-compilant one, like YYYY-MM-DD >hh:mm:ss.fff. It's the least ambiguous format, is pretty readable, and as a >bonus you can sort them as strings to put them in chronological order. >Beside, >this ordering of date components is used for SQL, HTML5, and the xs:dateTime >base type for XML schemas, and probably many other places. > > -- > Michel Fortin > [email protected] > http://michelf.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
