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A comment on RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601. Parent comment

Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by grey_earthling on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:51AM (#28977067)
Omitting the hyphens and colons is allowed too (IIRC), so I suppose omitting the T is intended for cases like 20211024110203Z — which IMO is a sensible format when there's no ambiguity that this is a date-time.
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Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by jfrunyon on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:46PM (#28979582)
That's a sensible format only for interchange - humans need separators to read it...
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Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by kbenson on Sunday October 24, 2021 @02:55PM (#28980854)
They don't need it. It makes it easier, but if you know it's a date and time format, it's pretty easy to read as long as you take care to keep track at which characters your looking at.

Justlikehowinmostcasesepacesmakeiteasiertoreadsomethingbutaren'trequired.

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Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by jfrunyon on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:54PM (#29033088)
Okay. Go try quickly scanning a table or spreadsheet with 1000 rows of that. Good luck.
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