• Therefore, the order of the elements used to express date and time in ISO 8601 is as follows: year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds.
  • The first edition of ISO 8601 was published in 1988 and replaced multiple older ISO standards on date and time notation.
  • If you’re one of these people who think so, I’m here to (hopefully) change your mind by introducing you to a lesser-known date format called ISO 8601.
  • ISO 8601-1:2019/Amd 1:2022. Date and time — Representations for information interchange — Part 1: Basic rules — Amendment 1: Technical corrections.
  • ISO 8601 is a date and time notation format defined by ISO as an international standard.
  • International Standards Organization (ISO) standard 8601 describes an internationally accepted way to represent dates, times, and durations.
  • microformats in general use a subset of ISO8601 - preferring uses which are more human readable (requiring hyphens in dates, and colons in times).
  • International Standard ISO 8601 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 154, Documents and data elements in administration, commerce and industry.
  • ISO 8601-1:2019/Amd.1:2022(E). NOTE 5 Date and time expressions according to this document typically refer to the first instant of the referenced time scale unit.
  • The ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD (2020-06-30) is intended to harmonize these formats and ensure accuracy in all situations.