iso-8601 datetime formatting

ThomasWaldmann commented 8 years ago

In the events list I get: "Jan. 28, 2016, 7 p.m. - Jan. 28, 2016, 10 p.m.".

(and to add to that: the time format is HH:MM[:SS] with 24h)

asmaps commented 8 years ago

That xkcd does not match that time, because the month is written as text. The issue is, that if you only have numbers you cannot always know which one should be the year, month or day: 07-08-09... could be August 7th, 2009, August 9th, 2007 or ..... when writing the month as text and the full year it's no problem. 12/24h time formatting is another thing, but it doesn't make times ambiguous so is just flavor thing. I personally like the "old" version more, like this people that don't know the ISO may not get which one is the month or day.

asmaps commented 8 years ago

Sources: https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/time-date.htm

Note that another format exists which writes the date numerically in the order Year-Month-Day,
for example: 2016/03/14. This is rare in British or American English and
used mainly in very official or technical documents.

The old version would be variant C which is far more widespread in all day use.

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