A simple package to deal with ISO 8601 date time formats. ISO 8601 defines a neutral, unambiguous date string format, which also has the property of sorting naturally. e.g. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ or 2007-01-25T12:00:00Z Currently this covers only the most common date formats encountered, not all of ISO 8601 is handled. Currently the following formats are handled: * 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z * 2006-01-01T00:00:00[+-]00:00 I'll add more as I encounter them in my day to day life. Patches with new formats and tests will be gratefully accepted of course :) References: * http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html - simple overview * http://hydracen.com/dx/iso8601.htm - more detailed enumeration of valid formats. See the LICENSE file for the license this package is released under.