Thanks for all the suggestions everyone!
I'm feeling good about the core IO upgrade and the flexibility it provides.
I really think that this parsing/formatting functionality, coupled with how
easy it already is to format things in Julia (@sprintf, interpolation,
etc.), a user should be able to
The python dateutil .parse() function has a fairly extensive set of tests
at
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dateutil/dateutil/trunk/view/head:/test.py
The license is
at: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dateutil/dateutil/trunk/view/head:/LICENSE
Keith
On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:38:11 AM UTC-4,
I have seen
* ddmmmyy (01Dec09)
* ddmmm (01Dec2009)
* single digit month code stemming from futures delivery codes i.e. F4
(Jan2014), so 1F4 for very terse near-term
date.
http://www.cmegroup.com/market-data/volume-open-interest/volume-by-price-faq.html#q7
On Wednesday, May 28, 2014
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,
