[Glass] DateAndTime string representation

[Ralph Mauersberger]

Hello Richard,

I don't know if there is a consensus on this. My personal opinion: I 
prefer a period regardless of the localization (in my case Germany), as 
I see the character more as a structural character than a decimal 
separator in the mathematical sense. As far as I know, ISO 8601 allows 
both variants, a period and a comma.I would therefore like to use a 
period when writing with asString. When reading with fromString:, I 
would like to have a tolerance that can handle both, periods and commas, 
as there is no ambiguity.

Best regards,
Ralph


Am 26.11.2025 um 01:38 schrieb Richard Sargent via Glass:
> Is there a consensus among those who use a non-English locale how 
> DateAndTime instances should print the decimal point in the seconds 
> portion and how DateAndTime class>>#fromString: should parse it?
>
> The ANSI standard really did not address internationalization.
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