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| | ISO - International Organization for Standardization |
 | | ISO 8601:2000 is based on, incorporates and cancels a variety of previous standards with a view to achieving one simple, logical and coherent format for all dates, times, and periods of time requiring to be represented. |
 | | For instance a specification might want to define that a certain field containing the date and time of an event should do so in the format: YYYYMMDDhhmm with the exclusion of all other formats allowed by ISO 8601. |
 | | ISO 8601 will find usage in computer programmes, logbooks, contest entries, QSL cards, magazine reports, Web pages, e-mail, statistics, forms of all kinds, administrations and businesses, in customs and transportation, in e-commerce and academia, and in all types of international activity. |
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