Bug/infelicity with System.Locale.iso8601DateFormat
Jon Fairbairn
jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Nov 9 12:37:26 EST 2007
According to <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime> (and other
random sources), the iso format for date+time in one field
is YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00), ie
no spaces around the "T" but iso8601DateFormat outputs a
space after the day if the timeFmt is not Nothing, so
formatTime System.Locale.defaultTimeLocale
(System.Locale.iso8601DateFormat (Just "T%H:%M:%SZ"))
(UTCTime (fromGregorian 2007 10 20) 26540)
yeilds "2007-10-20 T07:22:20Z". I reckon this is a bug,
but at the very least it's not a good design. Please can we
change
Just fmt -> ' ' : fmt
to
Just fmt -> fmt
? if someone wants a space, they can put it in the string,
but it's a pain to take it out when you want the one field
format with a T there.
--
Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
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