• 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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    105 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)

    • @zik
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      205 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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        75 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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        25 months ago

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

    • @datelmd5sum
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      65 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        15 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)