ISO Date (was: parser for xml-data?)

[Edward C. Zimmermann]

> 
> Rick Jelliffe:
> >Also note that the usage of ISO 8601 date formats seems to
> be wrong.
> >ISO 8601 date format is yyyy-mm-dd, e.g. 1998-05-09, and
> not 19980509,
> >last time I looked.
> 
> It allows both. The first form is preferred where the text
> is intended to be human-readable, but the second is
> permitted where it is primarily for machine use. [That's
> from memory, I don't have the spec to hand].

  ISO date formats:
   YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS[Z]
   YYYYMMDDTHH:MM:SS[Z]
   YYYY-MM-DDTHHMMSS[Z]
   YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS[Z] (eg.  1996-07-16T13:19:51Z)

Z := UTC (aka GMT) else unspecified (resp. local)
> 
> Mike Kay
> 
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