Dates: ISO 8601

[Klaus Major]

Hi David,

> I need a handler to convert a Rev date into ISO 8601?
>
>> From my library I have a rough and ready one to go the other way  
>> round:
>
> on date_Convert8601 @revisionDate
>    -- was "date_ConvertT"
>    replace "T" with return in revisionDate
>    put line 1 of revisionDate into someDate
>
>    put line 2 of revisionDate into someTime
>    put last char of someTime into timeZoneThing
>    delete last char of someTime
>
>    replace "-" with comma in someDate
>
>    set the itemdelimiter to "."
>    put item 1 of someTime into colonTime
>    put item 2 of someTime into colonSeconds
>    replace ":" with comma in colonTime
>
>    set the itemdelimiter to comma
>    put someDate into someDateItems
>    put colonTime into item 4 of someDateItems
>
>    put 0 into item 7 of someDateItems
>
>    convert someDateItems to internet date
>    delete word -1 of someDateItems
>    convert someDateItems to internet date
>    put someDateItems into revisionDate
> end date_Convert8601
>
> But seem to have lost the other side of the equation ")

a little example on how a date should look according to ISO 8601  
MIGHT help
us to help you faster  ;-)


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de