Pat Naughtin wrote on 2002-10-13 04:23 UTC:
> on 2002-10-11 19.19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Ah, excellent opportunity for educational nitpicking ... :-)

"19.19" means in ISO 8601 actually that this event happend 19.19 hours
after midnight (= 19:11:24 or 19 hours, 11 minutes and 24 seconds).

Use the decimal dot for decimal fractions of the hour only and the colon
for base-60 fractions (minutes and seconds). Considering that the
original header of the quoted USMA:22620 was

  Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:19:59 +0200 (MEST)

which equals 2002-10-11 19:19:59+1000 the decimal dot is obviously
not correct here.

For more information:

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/ISO-FDIS-8601.pdf

Markus

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