Subject: Re: bug#24823: 25.1.50; parse-time-string cannot parse ISO 8601 time string

From: Matt Armstrong <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 01:30:08 -0800

Hong Xu <[email-masked]> writes:

> The function parse-time-string cannot parse ISO 8601 time string, e.g.,
> 2005-04-07T22:13:13, which is pretty ubiquitous nowadays.
> (parse-time-string 2005-04-07T22:13:13) returns a list full of nils.

Hi Hong, parse-iso8601-time-string exists and can be used to parse ISO
8601 time strings.  It falls back to RFC 2822 style strings if that
fails.  It would be nice if parse-time-string handled 8601 formt, but
this has implications for current users.  I'll tag this bug a 'wishlist'
in case others have opinions.