Re: [twitter-dev] Which IETF standard has the year appearing after the time?

2010-06-21 Thread Andrew W. Donoho
On Jun 21, 2010, at 14:40 , Peter Cross wrote: > This date is from a call to > http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml: > > Mon Jun 21 19:06:21 + 2010 > > Elided > > > This isn't an XML standard date format either. It is a unicode compatible date. This format string is

[twitter-dev] Which IETF standard has the year appearing after the time?

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Cross
This date is from a call to http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml: Mon Jun 21 19:06:21 + 2010 I've never seen the year come after the time... in any standard date format. It's as if someone thought "Hmmm... how can we make this date format more difficult to work with?". Why,