ISO 8601

This wiki uses the ISO 8601 date format. This reduces ambiguities and makes searching the site with a search engine easier.

examples: 2006-05-01

compare local formats

• 01/05/06 (does it mean 2001-05-06 or 2006-01-05 or 2006-05-01?)
• 1.5.06
• 1/5/2006
• 5/1/2006
• 1.5.2006

Range formats, e.g. for events that take place on several days are constructed with "/"

examples

• 2007-06-25/26 -> from 2007-06-25 until 2007-06-26 (two days)
• 2007-06-25/29 -> from 2007-06-25 until 2007-06-29 (five days)
• 2007-06-25/07-01 -> from 2007-06-25 until 2007-07-01 (seven days)

links

• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
• http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/iso8601.html
• http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime