Web Directory

» 54 Weeks in 2000 : Another Y2K Problem!
   A short discussion about week numbering, showing how the ISO 8601 standard had fixed a Y2K problem, long before it was noticed in other non-ISO week-numbering schemes.
   http://www.allegro.com/papers/54.html

» Calculating the ISO week number - by Jan Stout.
   WeekNumber Calculation Explanation.
   http://www.proesite.com/timex/wkcalc.htm

» Changing Your Operating System's Default Date Format
   Changing your operating system's default date format to use four-digit years - University of California at Berkeley.
   http://y2k.berkeley.edu/computers/fixpcs/issues/os-date-format.html

» Date Formats: ISO 8601
   Information about the International Date Standard - by Nick Renton.
   http://www.nickrenton.com/301.htm

» Date and Time Notation - Macintosh Procedure for ISO 8601 Format
   Setting up your Mac to use the Year-Month-Day date format. Instructions are for MAC OS 7, but are easily adapted for later versions.
   http://metric1.org/macdtset.htm

» Date and Time Notation - Windows Procedure for ISO 8601 Format
   Setting up your PC to use the Year-Month-Day date format. Instructions are for Windows 95, but are easily adapted for later versions.
   http://metric1.org/windtset.htm

» Date and Time on the Internet
   A proposal to use the ISO date format for Internet applications - by Chris Newman.
   http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/newman.htm

» Date and Time on the Internet - Timestamps
   Document: draft-ietf-impp-datetime-05 - An updated proposal to use a limited subset of ISO-compliant date formats for date stamps on the Internet - by Chris Newman.
   http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/drafts/draft-ietf-impp-datetime-05.txt

» Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps
   RFC 3339 defines a date and time format for use in Internet protocols that is a profile of the ISO 8601 standard for representation of dates and times using the Gregorian calendar - by Graham Klyne and Chris Newman [FTP].
   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339

» Date and Time: Week Numbers
   Windows date and time locale tables sorted both by country order and by definition order - by Peter J Haas in Germany.
   http://www.pjh2.de/datetime/weeknumber/index.php

» Dated Material - Is the Y2K Problem Really Over?
   Discussion about the use and misuse of various date formats - Intelligent Enterprise Magazine - Celko.
   http://www.intelligententerprise.com/000717/celko.shtml?database

» Discussion About the ISO 8601 Standard
   About 200 people worldwide, who already use and promote the ISO 8601 Year-Month-Day date format have formed this discussion group. Go here for help and advice, or for general discussion. Message archive can be browsed. If you wish to join in, there are op
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iso8601/

» Fast RFC 3339 date processing in javascript
   AJAX routine for faster RFC 3339 date processing.
   http://blog.toppingdesign.com/2009/08/13/fast-rfc-3339-date-processing-in-javascript/

» Human Temporal Measurements: Time Measurements and Date Formats
   Internation Date Format (ISO 8601) and BCE, CE versus BC and AD. By Vexen Crabtree.
   http://www.vexen.co.uk/notes/dates.html

» ISO 8601 Date and Time - Converting and Implementing
   How to implement the use of the Year-Month-Day Date format in various computer systems - includes some programming examples and the 'Date Format Poll' - by Nikolai Sandved in Norway.
   http://www.probabilityof.com/ISO8601.shtml

» ISO 8601 Date/Time Representations
   A simple introduction to ISO 8601 date and time formats - University of Wellington in New Zealand.
   http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/technical/software/SGML/doc/iso8601/ISO8601.html

» ISO 8601 compliant website button
   A button to place on an iso-8601 compliant website.
   http://www.esperanto.uklinux.net/iso8601/iso8601.html

» ISO 8601: the Right Format for Dates
   A short description, and guide to usage, of the ISO 8601 format, with some links to further resources.
   http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/isodates/index.html

» ISO Week Algorithm
   An algorithm for converting Gregorian Calendar Dates to the ISO 8601 Week Date format (Y2K Compliant).
   http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/ISOwdALG.txt

» ISO note on the standard
   Brief description of the standard from the publishers themselves.
   http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html

» Implementation of the ISO 8601 Standard
   A list of countries around the world that have adopted the ISO 8601 standard, also lists equivalent national standards numbers where applicable.
   http://www.qsl.net/g1smd/isoimp.htm

» Information on ISO 8601, the date and time representation standard
   A short description of and motivation for ISO 8601, the date and time representation standard, with links to more detailed resources - by Jukka Korpela in Finland.
   http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/iso8601.html

» International Date Format Campaign
   Describes and lists many reasons why the ISO 8601 standard should be more widely adopted in Computing, on the Internet, and in everyday life - by Steve Adams in England.
   http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm

» Issues about Date and Time
   by Clive D.W. Feather.
   http://www.davros.org/c/wg14n764.txt

» Javascript Code
   Parsing ISO 8601 Date/Times in JavaScript.
   http://delete.me.uk/2005/03/iso8601.html

» Mac OS 9: How to Set Date and Time to ISO 8601:1988 Standard
   Apple support document.
   http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26390

» Mac OS X 10.0: How to Set Date and Time to ISO 8601:1988 Standard
   Apple support document.
   http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106174

» New Date
   A private site about the advantages of using ISO 8601-style dates.
   http://www.wwmeli.org/newdate/

» Problem F - Standard Dates (50 Points)
   A problem set for computer studies students involving programming using the ISO 8601 date format.
   http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~marku/progcomp/problems/problemF.html

» Project 2038 FAQ
   Description of computer problems with date/time calculations coming in year 2038.
   http://maul.deepsky.com/%7Emerovech/2038.html

» Schema Time Changes (Draft)
   Useful information about date and time - by M. Davis.
   http://macchiato.com/unicode/timeIntervals.htm

» Standards for Representing Dates
   Useful overview and discussion on adopting ISO standards and four-digit year formats as part of Y2K readiness and future-proofing of software - University of California at Berkeley.
   http://y2k.berkeley.edu/computers/fixpcs/issues/date-standards.html

» Standards to be obeyed by the masses: Representing temporal and monetary data on the web
   A well researched paper into the usage of various Date and Time, and Monetary, formats on the Internet which recommends the widespread adoption of ISO 3166, ISO 4217, and ISO 8601 - by Gerhard Knolmayer.
   http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/xta78/ISO8601/Knolmayer.pdf

» The Best Of Dates, The Worst Of Dates
   Just because Y2K is over, doesn't mean programmers are done creating date bugs - covers many date and time issues, especially ISO 8601 - by Gilbert Healton.
   http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html

» The ISO Date Format
   Discussion of formats for expressing dates, with particular reference to the ISO 8601 date format - by Peter Meyer.
   http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/formats.htm

» The ISO Week Date Calendar
   A calendar of weeks based on the ISO 8601 week notation - convert any date into week number and day number.
   http://www.personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/isowdcal.html

» The Many Dates and Times of Perl
   A tour of the many date and time handling modules on the CPAN - by Dave Rolsky.
   http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/13/datetime.html

» The Mathematics of the ISO 8601 Calendar
   A comprehensive document covering how week numbers are calculated using the ISO 8601 calendar system. Includes links to many further resources.
   http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/isocalendar.htm

» The Y2K Problem, UIC, and You
   Describes Year 2000 fixes for computer systems, mainly based on using the ISO 8601 standard for dates.
   http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/adn21/y2kprob.html

» UN/ECE Trade Facilitation Recommendation 07
   The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - Working Party on Facilitation of International Trade Procedures - Recommendation 07 - Numerical Representation of Dates, Time and Periods of Time.
   http://www.unece.org/etrades/unedocs/e_forms/rec_pdf/rec07_1988_inf108.pdf

» Use International Date Format
   How and why to use international date format in your document - from the W3C QA section.
   http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date

» Use of ISO8601 in the National Health Service.
   Brief description of date and time standards for interoperability within the National Health Service.
   http://www.isb.nhs.uk/docs/08date1CUI-Date.pdf

» Using ISO 8601 Dates
   ISO 8601 Dates: What they are and why they're good - University of Illinois at Chicago in the USA.
   http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/isodates/isocontents.html

» Various Date and Time Format Miscellany
   by J R Stockton - Covers written date and time formats, ISO Standard 8601 (with links) and converting to and from Roman Numbers. Discusses reforming American format dates as well as JavaScript and non-text formats.
   http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/datefmts.htm

» W3C Date and Time Formats
   Defines a profile of ISO 8601 referenced by the W3C HTML recommendation.
   http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-datetime-19980827

» W3C I18N Q&A: Date formats
   Discussion of date formats for internationalisation.
   http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format

» Week Numbers In Excel
   How to calculate absolute week numbers, Excel week numbers and ISO week numbers (with Formula and VBA). Links to other ISO 8601 related materials.
   http://www.cpearson.com/excel/weeknum.htm