In the above message you wrote:
>ISO may have revised it recently to take fractions of seconds into
>account. What they've done for UDUNITS looks pretty close to ISO, but
it
>doesn't comply with the international standard. For something as universal
>as date/time stamp this compliance is pretty important. Anyone know why
>the ISO standard wasn't used?
Because I didn't have a copy of the Standard. :-(
The parsing of time strings is based on yacc(1) and lex(1), so it's easy to
modify. Can you send me the ISO grammar?
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Steve Emmerson <steve@unidata.ucar.edu>