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Standards shouldn't be behind a paywall (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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  • ISO 8601 is paywalled
  • RFC allows a space instead of a T (e.g. 2020-12-09 16:09:...) which is nicer to read.
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[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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)

[–] zik@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

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

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've worked with this one project for so long I can now read +%s timestamps.

[–] somenonewho@feddit.de 1 points 9 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)