Re: ISO 8601 'Time Intervals' of the 'format with time-unit

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Ron Mayer wrote:
>
> Tom wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > > Tom Lane writes:
> > >> Yes, but by the same token "iso8601" isn't specific enough either.
>
> 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 it?s
> 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, I?d also
> have to tweak the ?date? and ?time? parts of the code too.
>
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