On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 at 21:35:51 +0200, Peter Flindt wrote: > The format 1966-08-06 is US specific
YYYY-MM-DD is another form of ISO-8601 date; in the USA dates are conventionally MM/DD/YYYY (particularly confusing if you're from the UK, where dates are conventionally DD/MM/YYYY). It'd be good if the example in the XEP had a day number higher than 12 (1966-08-16 or something) to make it obvious which bit is meant to be the day, though. > I guess the phone numbers in the vCard have a standard too and I not > trust the example <NUMBER>303-555-1212</NUMBER>. In principle, refer to ITU-T E.123 (see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.123>). In practice, you can't really assume anything about the format of a phone number: just treat it as an opaque blob of text until/unless you need to dial it. S
