RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601
Or: XKCD 1179 has its heart in the right place, but we can only wish it was actually that simple
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This is missing the biggest difference: ISO 8601 costs 190-450€, whereas RFC 3339 is free.
The only way to fully unify all 14 standards is to support all 14 standards.
TIL that, at least according to the linked page,
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss(or%Y-%M-%D %h:%m:%sinstrftimeformat) isn't valid in either system.ISO8601 apparently disallows spaces altogether, so that space should be a
Tfor it to qualify there; RFC3399 allows the space, but insists there should be a UTC offset of some kind at the end.Unrelatedly, the page's use of
%Zand%zdoesn't match withstrftimeformatting at all, so there's at least one other standards problem lurking here.This has the “just one more bro” feel to it.