Ulrich Zehl wrote: >Since I don't have access to the ISO standard, I cannot verify that the >format as given in RFC 4517 is really standards compliant,
It's conditionally compliant. The relevant paragraph of the standard reads: # NOTE By mutual agreement of the partners in information interchange, # the character [T] may be omitted in applications where there is no # risk of confusing a date and time of day representation with others # defined in this International Standard. So an ISO 8601 parser shouldn't accept it by default. Where context dictates that a date-time representation is expected, it is unambiguous and so parsing it this way is acceptable. -zefram
