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No there isn't and no it doesn't. ISO 8601 looks like all kinds of things. - 2020-W01 - 2020-004 - --01-04 are all valid ISO 8601 dates. The spec is huge an

No there isn't and no it doesn't. ISO 8601 looks like all kinds of things. - 2020-W01 - 2020-004 - --01-04 are all valid ISO 8601 dates. The spec is huge and not freely available (75 pages, costs around 200usd [2]). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 [2] https://www.iso.org/standard/70908.html https://www.iso.org/standard/70908.html

deogeo 7y ago
75 pages on how to format a date. I am shocked it doesn't see more use.
chubot 7y ago
Yes. I learned the hard way that GNU date —iso-8601 changed its bytes between versions of Debian. Not what I expected from a standard format!!