• ISO 8601 is paywalled
  • RFC allows a space instead of a T (e.g. 2020-12-09 16:09:…) which is nicer to read.
  • treadful@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    ISO 8601 also allows for some weird shit. Like 2023-W01-1 which actually means 2022-12-31. There’s a lot of cruft in that standard.

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      11 months ago

      This is the killer for me. Most people promote ISO 8601 as a “definitive” date structure, when it actually supports a lot of different formats. What they actually want is usually RFC 3339.

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      11 months ago

      Week numbers are convenient for projects in which key delivery dates are often expressed in his many weeks out they are.