Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-30 Thread Daniel Rall
Jochen Wiedmann wrote: Daniel L. Rall wrote: Jochen, I defer to John on the timezone interpretation of what's generally accepted as output by common server implementations. However, like usual, I'm of the opinion that servers should be gracious about the types of input accepted, so long as

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-17 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Do, 2004-06-17 at 09:36, John Wilson wrote: The XML-RPC spec (http://www.xml-rpc.com/spec see the last but one bullet point) says that timezones may not be present in a date. The generally accepted interpretation of the spec is that only the precise subset of ISO 8601 date/times given

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-17 Thread John Wilson
On 17 Jun 2004, at 09:20, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Do, 2004-06-17 at 09:36, John Wilson wrote: The XML-RPC spec (http://www.xml-rpc.com/spec see the last but one bullet point) says that timezones may not be present in a date. The generally accepted interpretation of the spec is that only the

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-17 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Do, 2004-06-17 at 10:24, John Wilson wrote: The example in the spec does not include milliseconds - the generally accepted interpretation of the spec (i.e. by XML-RPC implementers) is that they are not permitted. If so, that leaves still more room for vendor extensions ... :-)

Re: DateTool not ISO8601 compliant

2004-06-17 Thread John Wilson
On 17 Jun 2004, at 09:40, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Do, 2004-06-17 at 10:24, John Wilson wrote: The example in the spec does not include milliseconds - the generally accepted interpretation of the spec (i.e. by XML-RPC implementers) is that they are not permitted. If so, that leaves still more