• ISO 8601 is paywalled
  • RFC allows a space instead of a T (e.g. 2020-12-09 16:09:…) which is nicer to read.
  • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    How could it be paywalled? I’ve never heard of anyone paying ISO to be able to write the date and time in a handy way.

    • sushibowl@feddit.nl
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      11 months ago

      What he means is, if you want to download the document from ISO that describes the standard, you have to pay a fee. Here’s their store page: click.

      It’s about 190 USD for a 38 page document describing the rules of the standard. There’s another document with extensions for a similar price. Quite pricey for a PDF file obviously, and the RFC is free to download.

      On the other hand, no one in the history of time has gone “hmm, I don’t know how ISO-8601 works, let me go buy this document from the ISO store to figure it out.” Most people just call datetime.isoformat() or whatever their library function is called.