You can use JLink (as already mentioned while I read JavaDoc). Searching StackOverflow brings up this highly voted answer
Converting ISO8601-compliant String to java.util.Date
I don't know whether it covers the whole standard but this works out of the box. If this is not sufficient, you can use an equivalent piece of code written for Joda Time
Needs["JLink`"]
ParseDateString[date_String] := JavaBlock[
InstallJava[];
LoadJavaClass["javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter",
StaticsVisible -> True];
DateList[
javax`xml`bind`DatatypeConverter`parseDateTime[date]@getTime[]@toString[]
]
]
This uses the DataypeConverter class which is available without in standard Java 6. It converts it into a standard date string which can then be used with DateList.
ParseDateString["2010-01-01T12:00:00Z"]
(* {2010, 1, 1, 13, 0, 0.} *)
