Randolf Richardson wrote:
> [sNip]
> > ISO 8601 gives more specific names.
> >
> > ISO 8601 Basic Format: P2Y10M15DT10H20M30S
> > ISO 8601 Alternative Format: P00021015T102030
> > ISO 8601 Extended Format: P0002-10-15T10:20:30
> >
> > In a way, the Extended Format is kinda nice, since its
> > almost human readable.
> >
> > I could put in both the basic and extended ones, and
> > call the dateformats iso8601basic and iso8601extended.
> > The negative is that to do iso8601basic right, Id also
> > have to tweak the date and time parts of the code too.
>
> Perhaps all three formats should be supported, and if the following
> names were all valid things could be simplified further too:
>
> iso8601basic
> iso8601bas
> iso8601alternative
> iso8601alt
> iso8601extended
> iso8601ext
>
> The reason for allowing shorter names is to simplify database
> management for anyone who may need to store the format name in a column for
> some reason (I can't think of one now, but I get a feeling that someone
> will want to do this type of thing in the future).
>
> For that matter, the first letter could be used instead of the first
> three for the short versions. Any thoughts on this?
Just go with the full spellings.
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