RFE -- canonical date conversions

From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 12:28:33 EDT

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    In looking at Bonsai, I've noticed that recent metadata commits are storing
    locale-specific date values. The code's easy to write that way (using
    ctime, strftime, and friends), but IMHO date values should only be localized
    in the UI, not the file format.

    Thus, would someone be interested in writing the appropriate UT_* helper
    functions or classes to implement the ISO-standard, non-localized dates we'd
    agreed on previously?

      http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0506.html
      http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0516.html

    The goal is to have a single mechanism that all impexp authors can use to
    convert (in either direction) between standard C library date/time values
    and the following canonical datetime string format:

      1998-08-01T09:14:37-05:00

    For completeness, the conversion should also be robust enough to handle
    date/time strings when the UTC offset isn't known:

      2002-05-13T13:15:30Z

    For further details, see the above URLs, or just ask.

    Thanks!

    Paul

    PS: Note that, if properly designed, these functions (and/or friends) could
    also be used to help localize those strings for display purposes.

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