ISO 8601-1:2019

Date and time — Representations for information interchange — Part 1: Basic rules ISO 8601-1:2019

Publication date:   Feb 25, 2019

Scope

This document specifies representations of dates of the Gregorian calendar and times based on the 24-hour clock, as well as composite elements of them, as character strings for use in information interchange. It is also applicable for representing times and time shifts based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
This document excludes the representation of date elements from non-Gregorian calendars or times not from the 24-hour clock. This document does not address character encoding of representations specified in this document.