[saga-rg] Timestamp issue

[Mark.McKeown at manchester.ac.uk]

The W3C has a profile of ISO 8601 which simplifies life:

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

Also IETF have a RFC "Date and Time on the
Internet: Timestamps":

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3339.html

Other Relevent standards that specify dates are:

RFC 822 and RFC 1123

The HTTP protocol accepts dates in a number of formats,
from section 3.3.1:

"HTTP applications have historically allowed three different formats
  for the representation of date/time stamps:

       Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT  ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123
       Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036
       Sun Nov  6 08:49:37 1994       ; ANSI C's asctime() format"


Hope this helps
Mark

>
>> Quoting [Christopher Smith] (May 05 2006):
>>>
>>> Does anybody have a pointer to the relevant ISO standard?
>>
>> Is there an ISO standard for that?
>>
> I found this link:
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> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html
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> but I haven't read it in any detail.
>
> -- Chris
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