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Perhaps another moral to add: ISO8601 solves a lot of problems.

• tim-- 4y ago
  This is a misconception. ISO8601 has six versions, is 14 pages long, and defines way to many ways to represent dates and times. Everyone should follow RFC 3339. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339#section-5.6 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339#section-5.6
  • geenew 4y ago
    Thanks! Wasn't aware of that spec.
  • db48x 4y ago
    But they‘re mostly trivial variations of each other, or durations that nobody uses at all.
    • tim-- 4y ago
      That's the problem though. If you don't support the durations that nobody uses, then you can't fully support ISO8601 dates. Every trivial variation is another if/switch statement.
      • db48x 4y ago
        Durations are not used in places that need a timestamp, and visa versa. More applications need timestamps than need durations.