Wow, someone is in a mood
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Although indeed very old the use of the 24 hour clock is neither antiquated nor local.
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No... I am hinting that the AM/PM system is very antiquated and somewhat local.
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What is at all difficult about understanding there are 24 hours in a day with midnight as the jump off point. What you attached is based on the 24 hour clock and seems seems perfectly innocent at first but then goes sideways fast:
Year: YYYY (eg 1997) Well yeah
Year and month: YYYY-MM (eg 1997-07) OK pretty normal everyplace but what exacty is wrong with month names even in different languages?
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Simply that being fluent in any specific language should not be required to read a date.
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Complete date: YYYY-MM-DD (eg 1997-07-16) Fine but most of what I need to know is the date and the month since I don't do much transitioning years
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Then at least let's agree to use the month and the date in a standardized order.
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Complete date plus hours and minutes: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20+01:00) So I know the date but not really sure what time it is
Complete date plus hours, minutes and seconds: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00) Am I timing an egg boiling somtime in the future?
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The "+01:00" in that example indicates the time zone offset as reference to UTC, previously known as GMT, often referred to as "Zulu time" by military forces in NATO aligned countries.
This makes it possible to see what the given time will be in any time zone around the globe.
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Complete date plus hours, minutes, seconds and a decimal fraction of a
second: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30.45+01:00) WHAT BLOODY TIME IS IT? I AM NOT A COMPUTER THAT NEEDS THIS LEVEL OF TIME!
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THEN DON'T USE THE DECIMAL FRACTIONS! THEY ARE OPTIONAL!
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
All in all I can see it being a totally practical system for computers where uniformity helps but seems a bit overkill for day to day use.
Doesn't matter anyway since we still can't get the Americans to understand measurements based on units of 10.
Not convinced that W3C is exactly supporting this standard.
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The STANDARD is still ISO8601, these are suggestions for use of the standard.
This document is regarded as a
defacto standard, as previously stated, and widely used.
And no to the image, it should be 07-04 :-)