this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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ISO 8601, while great, has too many formats. May I introduce RFC 3339 instead?
https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
That is what I love so much about standards: there are so many to choose from.
https://xkcd.com/927/
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...
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.