by Clive D.W. Feather.
A simple introduction to ISO 8601 date and time formats - University of Wellington in New Zealand.
A calendar of weeks based on the ISO 8601 week notation - convert any date into week number and day number.
The wonderful thing about the computer industry, it is said, "If you like standards, there are a lot to choose from". Provides useful information and background about date format issues.
A short discussion about week numbering, showing how the ISO 8601 standard had fixed a Y2K problem, long before it was noticed in other non-ISO week-numbering schemes.
A short description, and guide to usage, of the ISO 8601 format, with some links to further resources.
[Text/PDF: 50KB] - A well researched paper into the usage of various Date and Time, and Monetary, formats on the Internet which recommends the widespread adoption of ISO 3166, ISO 4217, and ISO 8601 - by Gerhard Knolmayer.
RFC 3339 defines a date and time format for use in Internet protocols that is a profile of the ISO 8601 standard for representation of dates and times using the Gregorian calendar - by Graham Klyne and Chris Newman [FTP].
Describes Year 2000 fixes for computer systems, mainly based on using the ISO 8601 standard for dates.
Windows date and time locale tables sorted both by country order and by definition order - by Peter J Haas in Germany.
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