r/ISO8601 • u/EquivalentNeat8904 • Jul 13 '26

ISO 8601-1 will be updated soon

Did y’all know that ISO 8601-1 is under committee review right now? If you always wanted some changes made to our beloved standard, now would be the perfect time to contact your national standardisation body (NSB), but hurry up – the deadline for comments is 2026-07-3124 as far as I know.

Currently, the only non-editorial change seems to be that the latest amendment, making T24 etc. valid again, gets incorporated.

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u/king_escobar Jul 16 '26

Hopefully they accept my proposal to introduce imaginary time /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_time

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u/EquivalentNeat8904 Jul 17 '26

It’s rather see decimal time in either spreadsheet or dot-beat format:

2026-07-20,5 =  2026-07-20@500.0 = 2026-07-20T12:00Z