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Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go?

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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Rhodri James
<rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:14:30 +0100, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <mailman.323.1346961101.27098.python-list@python.org>,
>>  Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> 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

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Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-09-06 12:27 -0700
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-06 12:51 -0700
    Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-09-06 13:34 -0700
      Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 16:27 -0700
      Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? John Gleeson <jdgleeson@mac.com> - 2012-09-08 18:20 -0600
        Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-09-08 20:51 -0700
          Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-09 06:15 -0400
            Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-09 12:20 +0100
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2012-09-06 21:44 +0200
    Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-09 08:14 -0400
      Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2012-09-10 22:46 +0100
        Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-11 08:51 +1000
          Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-10 21:12 -0400
            Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-09-12 02:00 +1000
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-09-06 15:54 -0400
    Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-06 19:44 -0400
      Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? André Malo <ndparker@gmail.com> - 2012-09-08 20:12 +0200
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-06 19:34 -0400
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-09-06 22:12 -0400
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Pete Forman <petef4+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 13:31 +0100

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