Representing Date/Times as Strings for Non-Human Consumption
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Published: 2008-03-08
Representing Date/Times as Strings for Non-Human Consumption

If you ever have the need to represent a date/time (or part of a date/time) as a string for programmatic rather than human consumption (e.g. you are defining a save file format or a network protocol), please use ISO 8601 unless you have a very strong reason not to.

For more information, please read what the W3C has to say about ISO 8601 style date and time formats.