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A new entry in the Glossary of Library & Information Science in Librarianship Studies & Information Technology blog provides an exhaustive description ISO 8601, the Date and Time Format
ISO 8601 ➨ ISO 8601 describes an internationally accepted way to represent dates and times using numbers. It was issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988. The purpose of this standard is to provide an unambiguous and well-defined method of representing dates and times, so as to avoid misinterpretation of numeric representations of dates and times, particularly when data are transferred between countries with different conventions for writing numeric dates and times. ... ... ... ... (Visit below link to read complete article)