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

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 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.
>
>         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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