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ISO 8601 is an international standard covering the worldwide exchange and communication of date and time-related data.It is maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988, with updates in 1991, 2000, 2004, and 2019, and an amendment in 2022. [1]
A distinction is sometimes made between the terms datestamp, timestamp and date-timestamp: Datestamp or DS : A date, for example 2024-12-4 according to ISO 8601 Timestamp or TS : A time of day, for example 19:01:53 using 24-hour clock
The ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD (2024-12-12) is intended to harmonize these formats and ensure accuracy in all situations. Many countries have adopted it as their sole official date format, though even in these areas writers may adopt abbreviated formats that are no longer recommended.
At 18:36:57 UTC on Wednesday, 17 October 1973, the first appearance of the date in ISO 8601 format [b] (1973-10-17) within the digits of Unix time (119731017) took place. At 01:46:40 UTC on Sunday, 9 September 2001, the Unix billennium (Unix time number 1 000 000 000) was celebrated. [40] The name billennium is a portmanteau of billion and ...
International standard ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times) defines unambiguous written all-numeric big-endian formats for dates, such as 2022-12-31 for 31 December 2022, and time, such as 23:59:58 for 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 58 seconds.
The ISO 8601 definition for week 01 is the week with the first Thursday of the Gregorian year (i.e., of January) in it. The following definitions based on properties of this week are mutually equivalent, since the ISO week starts with Monday: It is the first week with a majority (4 or more) of its days in January.
The year-month-day order, such as the ISO 8601 "YYYY-MM-DD" notation is popular in computer applications because it reduces the amount of code needed to resolve and compute dates. It is also commonly used in software cases where there are many separately dated items, such as documents or media, because sorting alphanumerically will ...
Software timekeeping systems vary widely in the resolution of time measurement; some systems may use time units as large as a day, while others may use nanoseconds.For example, for an epoch date of midnight UTC (00:00) on 1 January 1900, and a time unit of a second, the time of the midnight (24:00) between 1 January 1900 and 2 January 1900 is represented by the number 86400, the number of ...