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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]
The ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD (2025-02-21) 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.
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Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in an earlier era, they were sufficiently unambiguous for many practical uses within a national context (for example, in railway timetables and business correspondence), but their ambiguity explains their deprecation in the internet era, when communications more often cannot rely on ...
Date and time notation around the world varies.. An approach to harmonize the different notations is the ISO 8601 standard.. Since the Internet is a main enabler of communication between people with different date notation backgrounds, and software is used to facilitate the communication, RFC standards and a W3C tips and discussion paper were published.
Therefore, use of this template for non-Gregorian dates or dates outside that range constitutes a false claim of conformance to the ISO 8601 standard. Any editor encountering such usage should change the date to plain text with no template; or if not confident in doing so, raise the matter on this template's talk page.
ISO 8601 is an international standard for communicating certain information, in particular between computer systems. The information comprises certain units of time which would normally be called "dates and times" from millennia (and with extensions larger units) down to seconds and decimal fractions thereof (for example 12:34 on 10 April 1962), and other time-like entities which we need not ...
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