The date reported there had mixed punctuation and we are unable to parse it: 20170821T1415+0300Z
However we are also not able to parse no punctuation either, i.e. 20171207T124731Z which according to Wikipedia ( 😃 ) is a valid ISO format. Neither Date.parse() nor the chrono library recognises it.
Reported to chrono here: https://github.com/wanasit/chrono/issues/239
TODO: either submit pull request to chrono and/or use a custom parser.
Both 20170821T1415+0300Z and 20171207T124731Z are valid date-time notations; they are different variants of the ISO 8601 format.
Thanks! I opened a ticket with chrono: https://github.com/wanasit/chrono/issues/239
By my reading of the standard punctuation can be missing from the date, time, or both. And the date can be trunctated UP to the year.
We can either submit a pr there or use a custom parser depending on whether they think it should be supported there.
Yup, I read it in the same way.
We can either submit a pr there or use a custom parser depending on whether they think it should be supported there.
Since it's a genuine ISO format, I'm inclined to think that a date-parsing module should support it :)