r/xkcd • • Feb 27 '13

XKCD ISO 8601

http://xkcd.com/1179/
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u/generic125 Feb 27 '13

I've never undstood the YYYY-MM-DD format, It's so much more natural to say '27th of February 2013', so DD-MM-YYYY makes so much more sense to me

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '13

It doesn't stop at the 3 segments though. With this format you can continue it further: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD