[gdal-dev] New config option for date/time output
Ari Jolma
ari.jolma at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 05:11:51 PDT 2016
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
>
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