How do I construct an ISO 8601 datetime in C++?

Question

I\'m working with the Azure REST API and they are using this to create the request body for table storage:

DateTime.UtcNow.ToString(\"o\")

Answer 1

OK so I've modified a few solutions that I've found as came up with the following :

static QString getTimeZoneOffset()
{
    QDateTime dt1 = QDateTime::currentDateTime();
    QDateTime dt2 = dt1.toUTC();
    dt1.setTimeSpec(Qt::UTC);

int offset = dt2.secsTo(dt1) / 3600;
if (offset >= 0)
    return QString("%1").arg(offset).rightJustified(2, '0',true).prepend("+");
return QString("%1").arg(offset).rightJustified(2, '0',true);
}

Then to easily format a date ( yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ ) :

static QString toISO8601ExtendedFormat(QDateTime date)
{
    QString dateAsString = date.toString(Qt::ISODate);
    QString timeOffset =  Define::getTimeZoneOffset();
    qDebug() << "dateAsString :" << dateAsString;
    qDebug() << "timeOffset :" << timeOffset;
    timeOffset = QString(".000%1%2").arg(timeOffset).arg("00");
    qDebug() << "timeOffset replaced :" << timeOffset;
    if(dateAsString.contains("Z",Qt::CaseInsensitive))
        dateAsString = dateAsString.replace("Z",timeOffset);
    else
        dateAsString = dateAsString.append(timeOffset);
        qDebug() << "dateAsString :" << dateAsString;
    return dateAsString;
}

For example GMT +2 would look like this : 2013-10-14T00:00:00.000+0200