[JSR310 M7 Review request] 8007392: JSR310 DateTime API Updates

[Stephen Colebourne]

On 8 February 2013 11:00, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8007392/
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8007392/javadoc
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> I don't think you mention that the reference to ISO 8601 actually refers to
> ISO 8601:1988 with Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.  That would be ISO
> 8601:1988/Cor.1:1991 (E).
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> The original standard numbered hours from 1 to 24 and minutes and seconds
> from 1 to 60, although it is somewhat self-contradictory in this area.

Just to note that the latest ISO-8601 is the 2004 version.

Question is whether specifying a particular version is overly limiting
on the specification (and we have never slavishly followed every last
detail of the spec anyway).

Stephen