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Re:XML is better than YAML by bradgessler on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:55AM (#37594065)
What’s the best representation you’ve seen for dates?
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Re:XML is better than YAML by stackedinserter on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:01AM (#37596362)
UNIX timestamp. Plus timezone string, in separate field/column, if it's important for the use case (like calendar events, etc).
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Re:XML is better than YAML by XorNot on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:16AM (#37596505)
Epoch time + GPS coordinates.

That's as unambiguous as you could possibly make it IMO.

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Re:XML is better than YAML by taeric on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:41AM (#37598331)
Hasn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 basically won, at this point?
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