On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Rhodri James <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:14:30 +0100, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In article <[email protected]>, >> Thomas Jollans <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The ISO date/time format is dead simple and well-defined. > > >> Well defined, perhaps. But nobody who has read the standard could call >> it "dead simple". ISO-8601-2004(E) is 40 pages long. > > > A short standard, then :-)
What is it that takes up forty pages? RFC 2822 describes a date/time stamp in about two pages. In fact, the whole RFC describes the Internet Message Format in not much more than 40 pages. Is ISO-language just bloated? *boggle* ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
