No idea what you based those claims on, but the spec itself (I have the pdf) and Wikipedia’s summary disagree. ISO8601 allows for YYY-MM-DD yes but it allows for a bunch of silly stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Both “2025-W24-4” and “2025‐163” are valid representations of today’s date in ISO8601.

(Also the optional timezone makes it utterly useless.)

It’s also such an broken idea that I can only imagine it comes from american tech bros who have a childish view of the world.

“Yes this area is germany people in germany speak german so websites must german problem solved”

No:

• I am Norwegian. I sometimes gasp TRAVEL. Taking a train through Germany to get to France doesn’t mean I want Google to go all “Dieses Suchenwiegenflassen gewürst fleinmescht bitte” at me when I search for pictures of cute cats.
• Some countries have multiple official languages.
• Some people technically in Norway living close to the border just speak swedish.
• Expats.
• I don’t want badly translated websites in Norwegian. Just give me English. Microsoft Bing for years had a setting that when translated back to English said “Number of results: Car”.

While a fucking stupid concept, it’s nice that this particular format has a monetary deterrent.

MM/YY for me. People can figure out the day of month themselves.

Microsecond precision is fine for most use cases, but I teach my kids to use nanoseconds.

After all the self-important blowhards in the committe were satisified that they had put their fingerprint on the ISO8601 document with bullshit like “year-month-week” format support and signed off, they went home.

The rest stayed behind, waited a few minutes to be safe, and then quickly made RFC3339 like a proper standard.

This is what RFC3339 vs ISO8601 feels like.

I am a bit confused here, because what you describe is what is currently happening. :)

A multiplication of one or more factors is a product.

Both factors and product are usually numbers, so we commonly just say that, but the math terms are as above

I’ve partied all day since sunrise leave me alone

Tbh the frequent pain from needing to read it again often happens because it was so hard to write correctly that it misbehaves on some data and you need to adjust it.

• Ok, so is it correct to say it has some rotation properties?
• Hahaha, oh no. Nonononono. No. Not at all correct no. However, it’s the best we’ve got so yeah that’s what we’re going with.

Not much but people will look at you funny.

Your fanfic of other people’s inner dialogue may not be canon.

Idea for DND character: Priest from Earth

You know in your heart there is a god and you must spread the holy teachings to the common folk, but you have no divine powers to lean on.

Your god is all “I help those who help themselves”. Or, you assume that is the case because your god doesn’t tell you anything directly, intervene in your business, or react to anything you ask of it.

So, no divine or magic powers. Just go hard on strength and charisma.