Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes: > 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.
Ok, thanks for explanation. Reason I noticed this is that I wanted to use a standard format in automated testing and for quoting reasons preferred to use string that didn't contain whitespace. It would be nice to see this fixed, but meanwhile I'm using the @4711 notation instead. /Simon
