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