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Standards shouldn't be behind a paywall (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 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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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 26 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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
[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hmm I don't get the T there tbh

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It makes the difference between M meaning month or M meaning minute. Small differences.

[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So it's redundant in P1DT4H? Or is it a mandatory separator between ymd and hms?

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It's mandatory, which also makes it nice and predictable.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

wtf what is that gross