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Standards shouldn't be behind a paywall(lemmy.world)

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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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treadful@lemmy.zip
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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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EnderMB@lemmy.world
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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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SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
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Doesn’t the ISO also includes time periods? Because if it does, those are amazing.

Without any explanation, you should be able to decypher these periods just by looking at them:

  • P1Y
  • P6M2D
  • P1DT4H
  • PT42M
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Killing_Spark@feddit.de
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Hmm I don’t get the T there tbh

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SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
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It makes the difference between M meaning month or M meaning minute. Small differences.

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pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
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wtf what is that gross

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

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