[gdal-dev] New config option for date/time output

[Ari Jolma]

15.03.2016, 11:15, Ari Jolma kirjoitti:
> Folks,
>
> The OGRFeature::GetFieldAsString returns date/time fields formatted in 
> non-standard way. For example date is output as "year/month/day" as 
> more usual "year-month-day". This causes problems in many programs.
>
> I suggest adding a new config option OGR_DATE_FORMAT, which, if set, 
> would make the method return date/time formatted according to it. I 
> suggest that we use the strftime and its format argument as the target 
> for the new option.
>
> The implementation is complicated a bit when milliseconds and 
> timezones are involved since they are not included in the struct tm 
> used by strftime. I suggest that we assume seconds are formatted as 
> :\d\d in the format and simply add milliseconds (as .\d\d\d) and 
> timezone (as [+-]\d\d(:\d\d)), if they exists, after the second.

It seems that the standard way of formatting time offset is +hhmm or 
-hhmm (without ':' between hours and minutes) (ISO 8601:2000).

>
> Do you think this needs a RFC?
>
> I'm willing to implement the changes.
>
> Ari
>