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		HaZeust on Oct 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say... ISO 8601 is so annoying because timezone offsets are now no longer implied

MereInterest on Oct 14, 2023 [–]

I thought ISO 8601 allowed both unqualified times (e.g. "2023-10-14T19:21:45"), which are assumed to be local times, and qualified times (e.g. "2023-10-14T19:21:45−01:00"). Which one is used is then a choice left up to an individual program.

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