ISO 8601: a better date format

Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by amelius on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:17PM (#26280521)

How can you take an international standard seriously when it is based on the number of years since some prophet of some specific religion was thought to be born?

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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by oxfeed65261 on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:28PM (#26280608)

Can you suggest a better alternative which you would take seriously? A Kelvin-like year based on the approximate date of the Big Bang (as CE/BCE is based on an approximate year)? Logical but unwieldy.

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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by gerikson on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:28PM (#26287435)

I’m down for the years to be counted from the storming of the Bastille, personally...

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