ISO8601

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

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[email protected] (World News) community doesn't use ISO8601 (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Probably because the mods are Americans

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Because ISO is not free.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

RFC3339 then?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

And they chose the worst version possible