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

    Its funny because everything about ISO 8601 is covered on its Wikipedia article. Very few people need to spend the francs to need the spec.

    • K4mpfie@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      If you want to be compliant for a standard you need to have a copy of it. Luckily it’s only companies that really need to buy them

    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 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)

        • somenonewho@feddit.de
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          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)

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    You’ve just become the nemesis of the entire unix-like userbase for praising the space.

    • Knusper@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      I’m not exactly fond of the space either, but man, the T is noisy. They could’ve gone with an underscore or something, so it actually looks like two different sections.

  • TeckFire@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The difference:

    2023-12-12T21:18Z is ISO 8601 format

    2023-12-12 21:18 is RFC 3339 Format

    A small change

    • hyperhopper@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I definitely don’t agree that the RFC is easier to read, the two numbers can appear to be one at a quick glance without a separator.

      • elauso@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        But there is a separator between the numbers: the same one that also very reliably separates the words in this comment

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      9 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.