ISO8601

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Community dedicated to the international standard YYYY-MM-DD date format.

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world@lemmy.world (World News) community doesn't use ISO8601 (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] donuts@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Probably because the mods are Americans

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Because ISO is not free.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

RFC3339 then?

!rfc3339@programming.dev

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

RFC forever (unless my job is paying for it),

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I might be an idiot, but I've never understood how it can't be free. How can a format of a timestamp not be free?

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago

Capitalism!

But technically is not the standard itself that is not free, it's the official documents and certifications. For example, my understanding is you have to pay quite hefty coin for the C++ Standard to be "compliant", otherwise you are just working with a "draft" that is not "official" despite being identical in all but at most the name and credits section.

[–] Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 days ago

And they chose the worst version possible