| 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. |
| Calculating_the_ISO_week_number_-_by_Jan_Stout_ WeekNumber Calculation Explanation. |
| 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. |
| The_Code_Project__C#_Programming Free source code and tutorial for a Gregorian Date To ISO Date Converter for Windows. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Date_and_Time_on_the_Internet A proposal to use the ISO date format for Internet applications - by Chris Newman. |
| 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. |
| 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 an |
| 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. |
| Dated_Material_-_Is_the_Y2K_Problem_Really_Over? Discussion about the use and misuse of various date formats - Intelligent Enterprise Magazine - Celko. |
| Delphi_32_-_Components__Date_&_Time__Clocks_-_ISO_Week_Number_(Program_Code) Here's some code that generates the weeknumber for a given date in accordance with ISO standard 8601:1988 (European Standard EN 28601). |
| 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 archi |
| 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. |
| Info_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. |
| 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. |
| ISO_8601 A short introduction to the ISO 8601 format. |
| ISO_8601_-_The_Right_Solution The wonderful thing about the computer industry, it is said, "If you like standards, there are a lot to choose from". Provides useful information and background about date format issues. |
| ISO_8601_compliant_website_button A button to place on an iso-8601 compliant website. |
| 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. |
| ISO_8601_Date/Time_Representations A simple introduction to ISO 8601 date and time formats - University of Wellington in New Zealand. |
| 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. |
| The_ISO_Date_Format Discussion of formats for expressing dates, with particular reference to the ISO 8601 date format - by Peter Meyer. |
| ISO_note_on_the_standard Brief description of the standard from the publishers themselves. |
| ISO_Week_Algorithm An algorithm for converting Gregorian Calendar Dates to the ISO 8601 Week Date format (Y2K Compliant). |
| 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. |
| Issues_about_Date_and_Time by Clive D.W. Feather. |
| Javascript_Code Parsing ISO 8601 Date/Times in JavaScript. |
| Mac_OS_X_10_0__How_to_Set_Date_and_Time_to_ISO_8601_1988_Standard Apple support document. |
| The_Many_Dates_and_Times_of_Perl A tour of the many date and time handling modules on the CPAN - by Dave Rolsky. |
| 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. |
| New_Date A private site about the advantages of using ISO 8601-style dates. |
| Problem_F_-_Standard_Dates_(50_Points) A problem set for computer studies students involving programming using the ISO 8601 date format. |
| Schema_Time_Changes_(Draft) Useful information about date and time - by M. Davis. |
| 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. |
| Standards_to_be_obeyed_by_the_masses__Representing_temporal_and_monetary_data_on_the_web [Text/PDF: 50KB] - 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 - |
| 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. |
| Use_International_Date_Format How and why to use international date format in your document - from the W3C QA section. |
| Use_ISO_8601_and_Drop_mm/dd/yy_and_am/pm Justin JIH, a Taiwanese American, sets out the reasons why adopting the YYYY-MM-DD date format is preferred. Includes useful links to further resources. |
| Using_ISO_8601_Dates ISO 8601 Dates: What they are and why they're good - University of Illinois at Chicago in the USA. |
| 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 |
| W3C_Date_and_Time_Formats Defines a profile of ISO 8601 referenced by the W3C HTML recommendation. |
| W3C_I18N_Q&A__Date_formats Discussion of date formats for internationalisation. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Writing_for_an_International_Readership How to write web sites that can be understood world wide - including ways to make dates unambiguous to all readers. |
| Year_2000_Readiness_-_Research_Resources_-_International_Date_Standard K-State Year 2000 Research Resources - Indepth: International date notation standards. |
| The_Y2K_Problem,_UIC,_and_You Describes Year 2000 fixes for computer systems, mainly based on using the ISO 8601 standard for dates. |
| Astronomy_Today_-_Cosmology Articles on related topics in popular magazine style. |
| The_Boomerang_Project Cosmic microwave background mapping project. Press releases and downloadable academic papers. |
| A_Brief_History_of_Time quotations from the Stephen W. Hawking book. |
| Cambridge_Cosmology_Homepage A site dedicated to cosmology, both basic and advanced, maintained by Cambridge university |
| COBE The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. Instruments, scientific results, related links. |
| The_Cosmic_Microwave_Background Extensive CMB information from the University of British Columbia. |
| Cosmology Companion site to the PBS mini-series, discussing the challenge to traditional Christian views posed by the scientific understanding of cosmological evolution, and ways in which they might be reconcil |
| Cosmology A collection of links. |
| Cosmology A summary of research areas at the University of Kansas, with links to activities and personnel. |
| Cosmology__A_Research_Briefing An online book from the National Academy of Sciences. Includes chapters on CMBR, the large scale structure of universe, and the physics of the early universe. |
| Cosmology_Books_and_Links Annotated list of books, articles, and websites from a popular course at Sonoma State University. |
| Cosmology_made_Simple A brief, non-mathematical introduction to modern cosmology. |
| CosmoNet An "interactive book" focusing on the topics of astronomy, cosmology, and theoretical physics. It also provides a number of services including an index of all 88 constellations, several interactive g |
| Distant_Galaxies_and_Cosmology_Models Article on possible cosmological models. |
| Galaxy_Formation_and_the_Intergalactic_Medium This site is dedicated to summarizing the research of Paul Shapiro's cosmology group. Of interest mainly to specialists. |
| Good_Cosmology_Sites Links to cosmology resources, and a tutorial by a UCLA professor. |
| Great_Debates_in_Astronomy Following in the footsteps of the famous April 1920 'Great Debate' between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, this series of debates among leaders in the astronomical community highlight major quests i |
| Introduction_to_Cosmology These notes form an introduction to cosmology with special emphasis on large scale structure, the cmb anisotropy and inflation. In some places a basic familiarity with particle physics is assume |
