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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by matheusmoreira on Friday February 26, 2021 @10:12PM (#26282267)
> While I'm typing this I realise that I've never actually read the ISO 8601 spec, like probably most people here, because it's not free. I cannot even be sure it really exists.

Always wondered about this too. How can people implement a standard if they can't freely access and reference it? It's the 21st century. Why can't they just publish the document on the internet just like the IETF does?

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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by dragonwriter on Saturday February 27, 2021 @11:35AM (#26285911)
> How can people implement a standard if they can't freely access and reference it?

They pay for it, out of the money they expect to make on the implementation.

It's a little problematic for free implementations, but then for most standards much less so than the engineering going into the implementation which has an (opportunity, if nothing else) cost.

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