ISO 8601
ISO 8601 is a way to write the date and time using numbers and symbols so that people all around the world can understand it the same way.
It's like playing a game where everyone agrees on the rules. In this game, when we write the date, we use a format like this:
YYYY-MM-DD
So instead of saying "today is September 1st, 2021," we say "today is 2021-09-01" and everyone knows what that means.
We can also add the time to the date using a format like this:
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss
The T in the middle stands for "time" and then the numbers show hours, minutes, and seconds.
Using ISO 8601 makes it easy for computers to understand the date and time too, because they don't have to worry about different formats in different countries. It's like everyone is speaking the same language!
It's like playing a game where everyone agrees on the rules. In this game, when we write the date, we use a format like this:
YYYY-MM-DD
So instead of saying "today is September 1st, 2021," we say "today is 2021-09-01" and everyone knows what that means.
We can also add the time to the date using a format like this:
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss
The T in the middle stands for "time" and then the numbers show hours, minutes, and seconds.
Using ISO 8601 makes it easy for computers to understand the date and time too, because they don't have to worry about different formats in different countries. It's like everyone is speaking the same language!