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What he means is, if you want to download the document from ISO that describes the standard, you have to pay a fee. Here’s their store page: click.
It’s about 190 USD for a 38 page document describing the rules of the standard. There’s another document with extensions for a similar price. Quite pricey for a PDF file obviously, and the RFC is free to download.
On the other hand, no one in the history of time has gone “hmm, I don’t know how ISO-8601 works, let me go buy this document from the ISO store to figure it out.” Most people just call datetime.isoformat() or whatever their library function is called.
What he means is, if you want to download the document from ISO that describes the standard, you have to pay a fee. Here’s their store page: click.
It’s about 190 USD for a 38 page document describing the rules of the standard. There’s another document with extensions for a similar price. Quite pricey for a PDF file obviously, and the RFC is free to download.
On the other hand, no one in the history of time has gone “hmm, I don’t know how ISO-8601 works, let me go buy this document from the ISO store to figure it out.” Most people just call
datetime.isoformat()
or whatever their library function is called.Ah thanks for the clarification! Very informative