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ISO 8601: Dates and Times

Date added 24 March 2006
Last edited 10 November 2009

Full Title

ISO 8601, Data Elements and Interchange Formats - Information Interchange - Representation of Dates and Times

Description

ISO 8601 enables exchange of data relating to dates and times of day by providing specifications for alphanumeric and character representations of these. It also provides formats for these representations. The specification makes it possible to create a unique representation of any date or time expression including: calendar dates, ordinal dates, week numbers, time intervals, recurring time intervals, combined date and time of day, and differences between local time and Coordinated Universal Time.

Standards Developing Organisation

ISO: International Organization for Standardization

Rights

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Lifecycle Actions

Access, Use and Reuse
Create or Receive

Standard Frameworks

Digital Archive Standards
Electronic Records Management Standards

Standard Type

Metadata Content Standards

Current Version

2004 - ISO 8601: Data Elements and Interchange Formats - Information Interchange - Representation of Dates and Times [external]: Full text available for purchase from ISO.

Further Information

Wikipedia entry for ISO 8601 [external]

Alternative Current Versions

None.

Previous Versions

ISO 8601:2000, Data Elements and Interchange Formats - Information Interchange - Representation of Dates and Times [external]: Withdrawn
ISO 8601:1988, Data Elements and Interchange Formats - Information Interchange -Representation of Dates and Times [external]: Withdrawn

Referenced Standards

IEC 60050-111:1996/Amd.1:-1), International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - Chapter 111: Physics and Chemistry - Time and Related Concepts
IEC 60050-713:1998, International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - Part 713: Radiocommunications: Transmitters, Receivers, Networks and Operation
ISO 19018, Ships and Marine Technology - Terms, Abbreviations, Graphical Symbols and Concepts on Navigation
ISO 31-0, Quantities and Units - Part 0: General Principles
ISO 31-1, Quantities and Units - Part 1: Space and Time
ISO/IEC 646, Information Technology - ISO 7-Bit Coded Character Set for Information Interchange
ITU-R TF.460-5, Standard-Frequency and Time-Signal Emissions
ITU-T S.1, International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2

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