ISO 8601

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. ISO 8601 is an international standard covering the exchange of date and time-related data. The standard is titled "Data elements and interchange formats Information interchange Representation of dates and times" and was issued by the International Organization for Standardization. The purpose of this International Standard is to eliminate the risk of misinterpretation where numeric representation of dates and times are interchanged across national boundaries, and to avoid the confusion and other consequential errors or losses. The standard organizes the data so the largest temporal term appears first in the data string and progresses to the smallest term. It also provides for a standardized method of communicating time-based information across time zones by attaching an offset to Coordinated Universal Time.