Received: from hesiod.nhh.no (root@hesiod.nhh.no [158.37.96.15]) by hub.org (8.8.8/8.7.5) with ESMTP id RAA24235 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:28:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from athene.nhh.no (root@athene.nhh.no [158.37.96.16]) by hesiod.nhh.no (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA25086; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:28:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Hamartun.Priv.NO (Uhamartu@localhost) by athene.nhh.no (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id XAA10425; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:20:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from tih@localhost) by barsoom.Hamartun.Priv.NO (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA04361; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:02:01 +0200 (CEST) To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: "Jose' Soares" , interfaces postgres Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Access'97 and ODBC References: From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo Date: 30 Apr 1998 23:01:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: The Hermit Hacker's message of "Thu, 30 Apr 1998 10:54:41 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: <86emyfqb0a.fsf@barsoom.Hamartun.Priv.NO> Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.4/Emacs 19.34 The Hermit Hacker writes: > Can someone inform me of what ISO-8601 exactly is? It's the international standard for representation of date and time. ISO is the International Organization for Standardization (yeah, I know, the letters are in the wrong order -- although not in French). 8601 is big and complicated, and some of the legal variations in there look pretty silly, but the gist of it is simple and good, and I'm typing this text at approximately 1998-04-30 20:59:07 UTC. -tih -- Popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity. --Niles Crane, "Frasier"