ISO 8601

ISO 8601 is an international standard for date and time representations. Its full English title is Data elements and interchange formats -- Information interchange -- Representation of dates and times. The current version is the third edition, ISO 8601:2004, dated 2004-12-03. This replaces the ISO 8601:1988 first edition and the ISO 8601:2000 second edition.

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The basic concept for the standard is to establish a moment in time as precisely or generally as the user chooses through a string of characters. The characters are ordered from the largest representations (years) to the smallest (seconds, or fractions thereof.) After establishing this moment, the standard also allows for intervals and recurring intervals.

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