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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ISO 8601, while great, has too many formats. May I introduce RFC 3339 instead?

https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is what I love so much about standards: there are so many to choose from.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

YES! I wish more people knew about RFC 3339. While I'm all for ISO 1601, it's a bit too loose in its requirements at times, and people often end up surprised that it's just not the format they picked...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Huh, I've never noticed how much bloat was in ISO 8601. I think when most people refer to it, we're specifically referring to the date (optionally with time) format that is shared with RFC 3339, namely 2023-11-22T20:00:18-05:00 (etc). And perhaps some fuzziness for what separates date and time.