International Standards for Dates and Times
International Standard ISO 8601 specifies numeric representations of date and time. RWDateTime supports this standard, enabling you to construct from any ISO 8601-compliant string an RWDateTime object.
The application of the ISO standard helps to avoid confusion among international users and support your application’s portability. Using the ISO standard offers you the following benefits:
language independenceconsistency with the common 24-hour time notation systemeasy comparison and sorting of combined dates and timescompatibility with many international notations, including the Chinese date notation, which already uses the sorting order of year-month-day a four-digit year representation The ISO 8601 format may be used with the Gregorian and the Julian systems, as well as many others.
The Essential Tools Module provides two ISO 8601 parsers, discussed in SourcePro’s ISO 8601 Parsers.
