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A private site about the advantages of using ISO 8601-style dates.
Defines a profile of ISO 8601 referenced by the W3C HTML recommendation.
by Markus Kuhn - An introduction to ISO 8601, the YYYY-MM-DD date and the 24-hour time notation, with notes on week numbers and on implementation.
A list of countries around the world that have adopted the ISO 8601 standard, also lists equivalent national standards numbers where applicable.
How to calculate absolute week numbers, Excel week numbers and ISO week numbers (with Formula and VBA). Links to other ISO 8601 related materials.
A comprehensive document covering how week numbers are calculated using the ISO 8601 calendar system. Includes links to many further resources.
A short description of and motivation for ISO 8601, the date and time representation standard, with links to more detailed resources - by Jukka Korpela in Finland.
by Clive D.W. Feather.
How and why to use international date format in your document - from the W3C QA section.
Discussion of formats for expressing dates, with particular reference to the ISO 8601 date format - by Peter Meyer.
Discussion of date formats for internationalisation.
A tour of the many date and time handling modules on the CPAN - by Dave Rolsky.
How to implement the use of the Year-Month-Day Date format in various computer systems - includes some programming examples and the 'Date Format Poll' - by Nikolai Sandved in Norway.
Description of computer problems with date/time calculations coming in year 2038.
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].
AJAX routine for faster RFC 3339 date processing.