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*data elements*
*interchange formats*
*information interchange*
*representation of dates / ‘times’*
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-[‘ISO 8601’ ] is an ‘international standard’ covering the exchange of [‘date’ + ‘time’-related data]-
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(it was issued by the ‘international organization for standardization’ (ISO) + was first published in ‘1988’)
(the purpose of this standard is to provide an ‘unambiguous’ + ‘well-defined’ method of representing ‘dates’ + ‘times’, so as to avoid ‘misinterpretation’ of ‘numeric representations’ of ‘dates’ + ‘times’, particularly when data are transferred between ‘countries’ with different conventions for writing numeric ‘dates’ + ‘times’)
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(in general, ‘ISO 8601’ applies to…)
*’representations’ + ‘formats’ of dates in the ‘gregorian calendar’*
(…and potentially ‘proleptic gregorian calendar’*
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*times based on the ’24-hour time-keeping system’*
(…including ‘optional time zone information’)
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*’time intervals’*
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(…and combinations thereof)
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(the ‘standard’ does not assign any specific ‘meaning’ to elements of the ‘date / time’ to be represented…)
(…so the ‘meaning’ will depend on the ‘context’ of its use)
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(in addition, ‘dates’ + ‘times’ to be represented cannot include words with no specified numerical meaning in the ‘standard’)
(‘eg’ –> names of years in the chinese calendar)
or that do not use ‘characters’
(e.g., ‘images’ / ‘sounds’)
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(in representations for ‘interchange’, ‘dates’ and ‘times’ are arranged so the largest temporal term (‘the year’) is placed to the left and each successively smaller term is placed to the right of the previous term)
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(representations must be written in a combination of “arabic numerals” and certain characters (such as “-“, “:”, “T”, “W”, and “Z”) that are given specific meanings within the standard; the implication is that some commonplace ways of writing parts of dates, such as “january” or “thursday”, are not allowed in ‘interchange representations’)
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