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Re: Here's the regex for the xs:dateTime datatype

• From: David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle@gmail.com>
• To: liam@fromoldbooks.org
• Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:35:58 +0100

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 22:59, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2018-03-31 at 29:75 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Both of these regular expressions allow any month to have 31 days.
> > For that reason, I'm not sure either of them is particularly useful.
>

I suppose you could replace


-(0[1-9]|1[0-2])
-(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])

by something like


-
(
((0[13578]|12)-(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]))
|
(02-(0[1-9]|[12])[0-9])
|
((0[469]|11)-(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30))
)

But it would still allow any year to be a leap year, I don't fancy
trying to encode the leap year rules as a regex:-)

Also this doesn't account for any historic dates around calendar
changes with variant numbers of days in a month.

David

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