Kennards Hire you are out of your fucking minds.
d MMM YYYY format on the booking form.
YYYY-DD-MM format on the confirmation email.
I got the confirmation email and logged back in to fix the hire booking, since I assumed I'd somehow accidentally booked it for August.
Also their booking form doesn't support Firefox. Hopeless.
shoutout to #ISO8601
ANSI X3.30-1971 (YYYYMMDD) was indeed ratified during the administration of that well-known Commie radical, #RichardNixon.
(-:
The fun part of that is that a necessary pre-cursor would be going back to get ISO 8601:1988 ratified almost a decade earlier than it was in our universe.
The sad part is that, conversely, in our universe ANSI X3.30-1971 and FIPS PUB 4 had standardized YYYYMMDD years before the IBM PC was invented.
#ISO8601 #DateFormats #TimeTravel #retrocomputing #FIPS #ANSI #FIPSPub4
@tykling but #ISO8601 has so many nice things that aren't in #RFC3339 /o\
https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
@nerdsticker #TIL about #Iso8601
Happy (ISO week date) New Year!
https://chrisphan.com/posts/2025-12-29_happy_new_year.html
#iso8601 #isoweekdate #2026
TIL about date -I which gives you ISO8601 dates without faffing around with the percent sign formatting.
Plus it has a “precision” modifier which can give you the rest: date -Iseconds → 2025-12-29T10:18:20+00:00; date -Ihours → 2025-12-29T10+00:00; etc. (You can truncate the hours to h and it still works.)
Time to update about a million of my shell scripts!
I have a few stickers with me at #39c3 btw. Mainly #grafana , some #ISO8601
Find me if you want stickers
CC @c3stoc
#ISO8601 #commonLisp #programming: https://screwlisp.small-web.org/kitten/actual-kitten-experience/#but-first-a-common-lisp-FIPA-SL-modified-ISO8601-date-timestamper
(let ((* (multiple-value-list
(decode-universal-time
(get-universal-time) 0))))
(format nil "~@{~?~}"
"~10,4,'0r" (list (sixth *))
"~10,2,'0r" (list (fifth *))
"~10,2,'0r" (list (fourth *))
"~a" (list #\T)
"~10,2,'0r" (list (third *))
"~10,2,'0r" (list (second *))
"~10,2,'0r" (list (first *))
"~10,3,'0r"
(list (rem (get-internal-real-time)
internal-time-units-per-second))
"~a" (list #\Z)))
My Actual #smallweb kitten experience.
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/kitten/actual-kitten-experience/
What I discovered is that #webdev -ing an article "properly" which is to say using all the features your framework provides (i.e. https://kitten.small-web.org/ ) absorbs an absolute ton of extra work. Comparable to being formal in mathematics. I am interested in how that extra work exposes my own articles to me better later.
I also propose FIPA SL's extension to #ISO8601 as a general time format in #commonLisp . cc @aral
I use the ISO week-date calendar for my personal journal and notes. Today begins the last week of 2025 under that system. It's a good opportunity to reflect on what has happened these 52 weeks and what I want my life to look like going forward. #ISO8601 #2025 #personalThoughts
The first ISO8601ultras sticker are now available in the stickerbox at @uwuspace Zurich
@FlohEinstein speaking of which...
I've got 50 of those so I won't distribute them too widely, but anyone who finds me can have some
I tried to be there and fully aware, on the 12th.
Sadly, I could not figure out, for the life of mine, what the name of the 31st month was, and so the date just passed, without me noticing anything in peculiar.
@cstross Reminds me of the hoops I have to jump through to get #iso8601 dates in my #Debian apps via the `LC_TIME` environment variable and a bespoke `en_SE` “English - Sweden” custom locale. https://blog.carsoncheng.ca/2021/03/use-iso-8601-dates-in-pcmanfm-on-debian.html . This was the “easiest” solution I found in 2022 after exploring options to get #Firefox, #Thunderbird, and other apps to display YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS style time stamps.
In #macOS, I think you just modify `System Preferences > Language & Region > Advanced > Dates`.
@FlohEinstein Nice, but nowadays it should be RFC 9557!
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9557
Plain RFC 3339 / ISO 8601 is lossy and thus insufficient.
