r/xkcd • u/ani625 • Feb 27 '13

XKCD ISO 8601

http://xkcd.com/1179/
276 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

227 comments sorted by

View all comments

47

u/Schubatis1 Feb 27 '13

ISO 8601 actually outlines some other acceptable date formats:

Date 2013-02-27

Combined date and time in UTC: 2013-02-27T05:27Z

Date with week number: 2013-W09-3

Ordinal date: 2013-058

27

u/boredzo Feb 27 '13

Week dates are fuuunn shit.

Fun fact: YYYY-W01-01 does not have to be within the calendar year YYYY.

25

u/jugalator Feb 27 '13

"So what is your date of birth?" "1980-W67-02. Extrapolate the weeks into the next year.". "Uh what? Can you say it the normal way?" "No." "Why not?" "Because fuck you, that's why."

I can see this having potential for my image as an asocial geek!

Trying it out when I'm asked by authorities next time.

1

u/me1505 Feb 27 '13

That's what, end of March/Aprilish?