ISO 8601 is the International Standards Organization's standard for representing time as a string. It covers dates, times, timezones, durations, and many other things.
Questions tagged [iso8601]
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Given a DateTime object, how do I get an ISO 8601 date in string format?
Given:
DateTime.UtcNow
How do I get a string which represents the same value in an ISO 8601-compliant format?
Note that ISO 8601 defines a number of similar formats. The specific format I am looking for is:
yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ
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How do I parse an ISO 8601-formatted date?
I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type.
I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient.
What is the best way to do this?
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Converting ISO 8601-compliant String to java.util.Date
I am trying to convert an ISO 8601 formatted String to a java.util.Date.
I found the pattern yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ to be ISO8601-compliant if used with a Locale (compare sample).
However, using the java.text.SimpleDateFormat, I cannot convert the…
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ISO time (ISO 8601) in Python
I have a file. In Python, I would like to take its creation time, and convert it to an ISO time (ISO 8601) string while preserving the fact that it was created in the Eastern Time Zone (ET).
How do I take the file's ctime and convert it to an ISO…
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How do I translate an ISO 8601 datetime string into a Python datetime object?
I'm getting a datetime string in a format like "2009-05-28T16:15:00" (this is ISO 8601, I believe). One hackish option seems to be to parse the string using time.strptime and passing the first six elements of the tuple into the datetime constructor,…
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How do I output an ISO 8601 formatted string in JavaScript?
I have a Date object. How do I render the title portion of the following snippet?
A couple days ago
I have the "relative time in words" portion from another library.
I've tried the following:
function…
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How do I format a date as ISO 8601 in moment.js?
This docs mention moment.ISO_8601 as a formatting option (from 2.7.0 - http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/special-formats/), but neither of these work (even 2.7.0):
var date = moment();
date.format(moment.ISO_8601); // error
moment.format(date,…
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Python UTC datetime object's ISO format doesn't include Z (Zulu or Zero offset)
Why python 2.7 doesn't include Z character (Zulu or zero offset) at the end of UTC datetime object's isoformat string unlike JavaScript?
>>> datetime.datetime.utcnow().isoformat()
'2013-10-29T09:14:03.895210'
Whereas in javascript
>>>…
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`date` command on OS X doesn't have ISO 8601 `-I` option?
In a Bash script, I want to print the current datetime in ISO 8601 format (preferably UTC), and it seems that this should be as simple as date -I:
http://ss64.com/bash/date.html
But this doesn't seem to work on my Mac:
$ date -I
date: illegal option…
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How can I parse / create a date time stamp formatted with fractional seconds UTC timezone (ISO 8601, RFC 3339) in Swift?
How to generate a date time stamp, using the format standards for ISO 8601 and RFC 3339?
The goal is a string that looks like this:
"2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
Format:
year, month, day, as "XXXX-XX-XX"
the letter "T" as a separator
hour, minute,…
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Illegal pattern character 'T' when parsing a date string to java.util.Date
I have a date string and I want to parse it to normal date use the java Date API,the following is my code:
public static void main(String[] args) {
String date="2010-10-02T12:23:23Z";
String pattern="yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ssZ";
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How to create a .NET DateTime from ISO 8601 format
I've found how to turn a DateTime into an ISO 8601 format, but nothing on how to do the reverse in C#.
I have 2010-08-20T15:00:00Z, and I want to turn it into a DateTime object.
I could separate the parts of the string myself, but that seems like a…
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Parsing an ISO8601 date/time (including TimeZone) in Excel
I need to parse an ISO8601 date/time format with an included timezone (from an external source) in Excel/VBA, to a normal Excel Date. As far as I can tell, Excel XP (which is what we're using) doesn't have a routine for that built-in, so I guess I'm…
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How to convert Python's .isoformat() string back into datetime object
So in Python 3, you can generate an ISO 8601 date with .isoformat(), but you can't convert a string created by isoformat() back into a datetime object because Python's own datetime directives don't match properly. That is, %z = 0500 instead of 05:00…
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How do I get an ISO 8601 date on iOS?
It's easy enough to get the ISO 8601 date string (for example, 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00) in PHP via date('c'), but how does one get it in Objective-C (iPhone)? Is there a similarly short way to do it?
Here's the long way I found to do…
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