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What's the difference between ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 Date Formats?

Asked 2009-02-06T21:28:43.627
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ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 seem to be two formats that are common the web. Should I use one over the other? Is one just an extension? Do I really need to care that bad?

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RFC 3339 is mostly a profile of ISO 8601, but is actually inconsistent with it in borrowing the "-00:00" timezone specification from RFC 2822. This is described in the Wikipedia article.

answered 2013-03-11T12:59:08.407

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