[eml-dev] dateTime format strings

[Matt Jones]

Hey Carl --

I don't know of a library for converting the format strings per se.  The
EML strings are ISO 8601 format strings, with some additions that allow us
to handle real-world data that is not compliant with ISO 8601. This makes
it messy.  Many date-time libraries in multiple languages will convert ISO
dates to POSIX dates. So, you might be able to leverage that.  Some
approaches are described here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2201925/converting-iso8601-compliant-string-to-java-util-date

The EML format strings are described here:

https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/#external//emlparser/docs/eml-2.1.1/./eml-attribute.html#formatString

Date-time values are a huge time sink.

Matt



On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Are there any resources already available for mapping between POSIX
> dateTime formatting strings and the EML <dateTime><formatString> convention?
>
> For instance, map the EML string "YYYY" to "%Y", etc?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Boettiger
> UC Santa Cruz
> http://carlboettiger.info/
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