On 01/02/2011 02:40 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Is this intentional somehow?
I'm afraid it was originally, as T meant the military time zone T. No doubt this should get revisited at some point, as military time zone letters are pretty much obsolete. ISO 8601 strings like 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z are quite ugly, which is part of the reason I never got around to attacking this backward-compatibility issue myself.