Re: Emacs Lisp date/time functions and RFC 3339?

[Kim F. Storm]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> "T. V. Raman" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The date/time handling functions in Emacs ---
>> calendar/time-date.el, together with the primitives for
>> encode-time and decode-time do not handle this format well, nor
>> does format-time-string.
>
> In which way does format-time-string not handle that format?

E.g.  %z => -0800   whereas the rfc requests -08:00

Also for UTC, %z => 0000 whereas the rfc requests Z


Also, we need a function which parses this date/time format.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk