Chapter 4: ISO 8601 Dates, Times, Datetimes, Durations, and Functions
4.5 ISO 8601 Durations and Intervals
4.1 What Is ISO 8601?
ISO 8601 is the name of an internationally accepted way of describing dates and times using numbers and is one of numerous international standards maintained by the International Standards organization (ISO). While using numbers eliminates the need for translating month names, the standard defines the order of date and time components in a date string, removing the confusion of whether 01-11-05 means January 11, 2005, November 1 2005, or November 5, 2001. This facilitates the exchange of data, especially between ...
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