Re: ISO Standard for date/time

Steve Emmerson (steve@unidata.ucar.edu)
Thu, 25 Mar 93 10:21:46 -0700

>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 09:31:41 -0700
>From: "Unidata User Support" <support@unidata.ucar.edu>
>To: netcdfgroup@unidata.ucar.edu
>Subject: ISO Standard for date/time

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>