this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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Year/month/day is superior when reading full dates, because it's the least ambiguous. If I only need day and month, I'd rather use month's full or shortened name (like 27 Sep). Ambiguity is the real enemy here, not any particular order
ISO 8601 gang unite!
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I scanned through this and my takeaway is that it's just defining a formal grammar for iso 8601. Did I miss anything important?
Kind of. As I understand it, ISO-8601 is also super broad and allows for a bunch of different potential formats and I think durations.
For instance,
2009-W01-1is a valid ISO-8601 date, meaning2008-12-31(!) which is pretty weird.