Re: Formatting a date

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 18:38 11-08-2000 -0400, Heather Lindsay wrote:
>         A little efficiency question for you.
>         I have a date which is in the form of "CCYYMMDD.HHMMSS" and I'm
> formatting this date to look like this: "MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS GMT".  I have
> my own way of doing this but I suspect that there is a better way.  Can
> anyone tell me if there is?  I tried format-number() originally but it
> choked on the ":".  What I'm doing now works but isn't very pretty.  Code
> below.

An excuse to publish!  I wrote some ISO 8601 parsing code as part of an 
invoice generator.  Naturally, I got it good enough for me, and then was 
waiting to properly document it before sharing it, and never got around to 
it.  I'll post a URL shortly.

The code won't handle CCYYMMDD.HHMMSS exactly, but it handles 
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS (and subsets thereof), and should be applicable 
(replace substring-before() calls with substring() and appropriate parameters).

-Chris
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