Time scales and civil time

ISO 8601ISO 8601

ISO 8601 defines an unambiguous format for date and time, with year-month-day and 24-hour notation, optionally followed by the UTC offset. The format sorts chronologically by itself and prevents confusion between day-month and month-day styles.

It is the standard for date/time exchange between computer systems.

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