Re:ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available
by nine_k on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @11:07PM
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24:37 is exactly what I'd call a hack.
It creatively abuses the lack of range checking in the format, and stretches the human facility of "knowing what I mean". It does not match a real time, though, because no clock shows this time as a current time.
While neat, it's a hack, a way to bend the notion of time, and as such, it ought to cause problems. Fortunately, airlines never seem to use this hack, and are able to indicate "00:37 next day".
It creatively abuses the lack of range checking in the format, and stretches the human facility of "knowing what I mean". It does not match a real time, though, because no clock shows this time as a current time.
While neat, it's a hack, a way to bend the notion of time, and as such, it ought to cause problems. Fortunately, airlines never seem to use this hack, and are able to indicate "00:37 next day".