It probably would have been better to use entirely different letters (xxxx instead of YYYY) to reduce sources of human error.
Notwithstanding these small issues, iso8601 is a godsend, but even with this spec it's amazing how many times we just get it plain wrong dealing with time. Time is hard! It gets even worse in binary formats, dealing with leap second tables, time zones, daylight savings, different epochs etc, which is why I developed the smalltime [1] format.
Notwithstanding these small issues, iso8601 is a godsend, but even with this spec it's amazing how many times we just get it plain wrong dealing with time. Time is hard! It gets even worse in binary formats, dealing with leap second tables, time zones, daylight savings, different epochs etc, which is why I developed the smalltime [1] format.
[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/smalltime