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		Akronymus on Sept 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctua... 8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 which can be any of these: YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM YYYYMMDD

aendruk on Sept 15, 2021 [–]

ISO 8601 is proprietary and people can’t even read it without each paying a $170 access fee. Instead, prefer IETF RFC 3339 (mentioned in your link) which is a more practical open standard.

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