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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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[โ€“] sushibowl@feddit.nl 69 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What he means is, if you want to download the document from ISO that describes the standard, you have to pay a fee. Here's their store page: click.

It's about 190 USD for a 38 page document describing the rules of the standard. There's another document with extensions for a similar price. Quite pricey for a PDF file obviously, and the RFC is free to download.

On the other hand, no one in the history of time has gone "hmm, I don't know how ISO-8601 works, let me go buy this document from the ISO store to figure it out." Most people just call datetime.isoformat() or whatever their library function is called.

[โ€“] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Ah thanks for the clarification! Very informative