RE: ISO 8601 ABNF grammar

[Frank Dawson <fdawson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John:

It's generally agreed that we would tighten up the syntax to not allow the complete range of representations. I agree with your pointing out that the abbreviated forms are probably not agreeable.

- - Frank

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From: 	John W. Noerenberg[SMTP:jwn2@qualcomm.com]
Sent: 	Tuesday, December 10, 1996 4:48 AM
To: 	Frank Dawson; 'Chris Newman'; IETF calsch WG
Subject: 	RE: ISO 8601 ABNF grammar

At 10:44 AM -0500 12/9/96, Frank Dawson wrote:
>Chris:
>
>Thanks for the ISO 8601 ABNF. I will incorporate this (with any mod's we
>place against it) in the draft of -calsch-csct-01.txt that comes out of
>the San Jose meeting.
>

I dunno about this.  I can't say I'm too eager for a date-time grammar that
allows productions like:
 ---7T--59		; 59th second of the 7th day?

This makes my head hurt.  I'm going to bed.

john noerenberg
jwn2@qualcomm.com, at IETF Dec 8-13, 1996
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