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seriesinfo:
ISO: '8601:2000'
date: 2000-12
ISO8601-2019:
display: 'ISO8601-1:2019'
target: https://www.iso.org/standard/70907.html
title: >
Date and time — Representations for information interchange —
Part 1: Basic rules
author:
- org: International Organization for Standardization
abbrev: ISO
seriesinfo:
ISO: '8601-1:2019'
date: 2019-02
ITU-R-TF.460-6:
title: ITU-R TF.460-6. Standard-frequency and time-signal emissions
author:
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Each distinct instant in time can be represented in a descriptive text
format using a timestamp.
{{ISO8601}} standardizes a widely-adopted
timestamp format, which forms the basis of the Internet Date/Time Format {{RFC3339}}.
{{ISO8601-2019}} standardizes a widely-adopted
timestamp format, an earlier version of which {{ISO8601}} formed the
basis of the Internet Date/Time Format {{RFC3339}}.
However, this format allows timestamps to contain only very little
additional relevant information.
Beyond that, any contextual
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earlier in {{Section 3.3 of RFC2822}}.
This email header convention is in actual use, while its adaptation into
{{RFC3339}} always was
handicapped by the fact that {{ISO8601-2000}} does not actually allow `-00:00`.
handicapped by the fact that {{ISO8601-2000}} and later versions do not actually allow `-00:00`.

Implementations that needed to express the semantics of `-00:00`
therefore tended to use `Z` instead.
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this retains the implication that UTC is the preferred reference point
for the specified time.

Note also that the fact that {{ISO8601-2000}} does not allow `-00:00` as a
Note also that the fact that {{ISO8601-2000}} and later do not allow `-00:00` as a
local offset reduces the level of interoperability that can be
achieved in using this feature; the present specification however does
not formally deprecate this syntax.
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Note that `-00:00` may be used instead of `Z`, because they have the
same meaning according to {{update}}, but `-00:00` is not allowed by
{{ISO8601-2000}} so `Z` is preferred.
{{ISO8601-2000}} and later so `Z` is preferred.

# Syntax Extensions to RFC 3339 {#extended-format}

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