[Joda-interest] Question about ISODateTimeFormat strictness

[Alexander R. <al...@sp...>]

Hey there,

I just now discovered, the dateElementParser in ISODateTimeFormat allows
for years, which are not composed of at least four digits. I do not have
access to the ISO standard, but reading wikipedia (which might not be
right) states:

ISO 8601 prescribes, as a minimum, a four-digit year [YYYY] to avoid the
year 2000 problem.

Still, you can get a number like '5' parsed as a valid year.

Likely being wildly wrong here, but I guess this is supposed to work like
that? Is there an option to make it more strict and force people to write
0005 or am I better off implementing that myself?

Thanks for any help and hints!


--Alex