[Developers] datetime format

[John Giannandrea]

Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> Not sure I understand, both styles occur in my property values, and  
> the documentation does not mention the first format. I guess I need  
> to read both? I assume that the -00:00 is a timezone. Why is that  
> included if we always use UTC?

how was that particular value created?  it looks like it was written  
by you.
the problem could be that we follow the ISO 8601 spec and allow all  
legal forms during mqlwrite and dont normalize them.

The 07:24.17.000Z is including unnecessary precision in the seconds,  
but ISO claims that is not the same thing as 07:24:17Z because that  
could be anything from 07:24:17.000 to 07:24:17.999.  Im gathering  
that you are getting these dates from an external source.

I need to re-read the ISO spec to see what -00:00 means and if that  
can be normalized into Z

-jg