metomi/rose — pull request #1202 by benfitzpatrick (2014-04-02 13:37:40+00:00)
Title: rose date: add ISO 8601 support

We need to add ISO 8601 support in Rose to follow the cylc/cylc#119
cycle time format change. This means updating the parsing and
dumping, as well as allowing ISO 8601-compliant offset syntax.

This adds the [isodatetime](https://github.com/metomi/isodatetime) library as the primary backend date/time
engine in `rose date`. Python's `datetime` is used as a fallback
parser/dumper for some strftime/strptime syntax that is not supported
in the isodatetime library.

@matthewrmshin, please review.