• ISO 8601 is paywalled
  • RFC allows a space instead of a T (e.g. 2020-12-09 16:09:…) which is nicer to read.
  • @[email protected]
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    1010 months ago

    This is about the old argument around how date strings are formatted.

    MMDDYYYY vs YYYYMMDD, spaces or hyphens may differ. It’s an old and passionate argument (mostly due to the American approach of starting with the month being insane)

    • @[email protected]
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      2110 months ago

      Both ISO8601 and RFC3339 are YYYY-MM-DD. The difference is in how the date and time are separated.

      • @[email protected]
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        710 months ago

        Than you! I was shooting from the hip half asleep (the classic ‘gosh I’m so clever’ moment for me…)

      • baltakatei
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        210 months ago

        Also, ISO 8601 has some handy rules for expressing time lengths and periodicities.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        That’s a certain kind of skill I wouldn’t want the need to have. I just copy paste those timestamps into a terminal with date -d @ (and always forget the right syntax for that :D)