Currently, we store a date string as the svn:date property on the revision. That
date string is passed unchanged over the wire as DAV:creationdate. According to
RFC 2518, that date must be an ISO-8601 date.
In general, all of our date strings should be in the ISO-8601 format. See
httpd-2.0/modules/dav/fs/repos.c::dav_format_time() for how to format the time
from an APR time.
This defect/bite-sized task involves creating a patch to APR-UTIL's date
functions for parsing and formatting ISO-8601 dates (in a limited form; 8601 has
a zillion variants). Those new functions can then be used throughout SVN when it
needs to convert a time to a string and vice versa.
(this is different from parsing user-supplied dates)
(note: apr-util is not yet integrated into the SVN build, so any functions for
parsing/formatting of dates can temporarily live in libsvn_subr until we move
them to apr-util and start using apr-util)
Marking as a P2 since we're violating RFC 2518. Noting this is a bite-sized task
since it is pretty approachable to new developers.
Critical