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INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
ISO
8601-1
First edition
2019-02
Part 1:
Date and time — Representations for
information interchange —
Basic rules
Date et heure — Représentations pour l'échange d'information —
Partie 1: Règles de base
Reference number
ISO 8601-1:2019(E)
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Contents
Page
Foreword ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................v
Introduction ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................vii
Scope .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
Normative references ......................................................................................................................................................................................1
Terms, definitions and symbols ............................................................................................................................................................1
Terms and definitions .......................................................................................................................................................................1
3.1
Basic concepts ....................................................................................................................................................................1
3.1.1
3.1.2
Time and date units .......................................................................................................................................................5
3.1.3
Representations and formats ................................................................................................................................8
3.2
Symbols ......................................................................................................................................................................................................10
General...................................................................................................................................................................................10
3.2.1
3.2.2
Time scale component symbols .......................................................................................................................10
3.2.3
Composite component symbols .......................................................................................................................11
3.2.4
Symbols used in place of digits or signs ...................................................................................................11
3.2.5 Designator symbols ....................................................................................................................................................12
3.2.6
Separator symbols .......................................................................................................................................................13
Fundamental principles .............................................................................................................................................................................13
Basic rules ................................................................................................................................................................................................13
4.1
Time scales ..............................................................................................................................................................................................13
4.2
4.2.1
The Gregorian calendar ..........................................................................................................................................13
4.2.2
The week calendar ......................................................................................................................................................14
4.2.3
The 24-hour clock ........................................................................................................................................................15
Time scale components and units .......................................................................................................................................15
4.3
4.3.1
General...................................................................................................................................................................................15
4.3.2
Calendar year and years duration ..................................................................................................................15
4.3.3
Calendar month and months duration.......................................................................................................16
Calendar week number and weeks duration ........................................................................................16
4.3.4
4.3.5
Calendar day of month and days duration..............................................................................................16
4.3.6
Calendar day of week ................................................................................................................................................16
4.3.7
Calendar day of year ..................................................................................................................................................17
Clock hour and hours duration.........................................................................................................................17
4.3.8
4.3.9
Clock minute and minutes duration .............................................................................................................17
4.3.10 Clock second and seconds duration .............................................................................................................17
4.3.11 Decade ....................................................................................................................................................................................18
4.3.12 Century ..................................................................................................................................................................................18
4.3.13 Time shift.............................................................................................................................................................................18
Expansion .................................................................................................................................................................................................18
4.4
Leading zeros ........................................................................................................................................................................................19
4.5
Date and time representations ...........................................................................................................................................................19
General ........................................................................................................................................................................................................19
5.1
Date ................................................................................................................................................................................................................19
5.2
5.2.1
General...................................................................................................................................................................................19
Calendar date ...................................................................................................................................................................19
5.2.2
5.2.3
Ordinal date .......................................................................................................................................................................21
5.2.4 Week date ............................................................................................................................................................................21
5.3
Time of day ..............................................................................................................................................................................................22
Local time of day ...........................................................................................................................................................22
5.3.1
5.3.2
Beginning of the day ..................................................................................................................................................24
5.3.3
UTC of day ...........................................................................................................................................................................24
5.3.4
Local time scale and UTC .......................................................................................................................................24
Omissions of time designator ............................................................................................................................25
5.3.5
5.4
Date and time of day ........................................................................................................................................................................25
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5.6
5.4.1
General...................................................................................................................................................................................25
5.4.2
Complete representations ....................................................................................................................................26
5.4.3
Representations other than complete ........................................................................................................27
Time interval ..........................................................................................................................................................................................27
5.5.1 Means of specifying time intervals ................................................................................................................27
5.5.2 Duration................................................................................................................................................................................28
Complete representations ....................................................................................................................................29
5.5.3
5.5.4
Representations other than complete ........................................................................................................30
Recurring time interval.................................................................................................................................................................30
5.6.1 Means of specifying recurring time intervals ......................................................................................30
5.6.2
Separators and designators .................................................................................................................................30
5.6.3
Complete representations ....................................................................................................................................30
5.6.4
Representations other than complete ........................................................................................................31
Annex A (informative) Example date and time expressions and representations ............................................32
Bibliography .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................38
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Foreword
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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 154, Processes, data elements and
documents in commerce, industry and administration.
This first edition of ISO 8601-1, together with ISO 8601-2, cancels and replaces ISO 8601:2004, which
has been technically revised.
The main changes compared to ISO 8601:2004 are as follows:
— conversion of the content as Part 1 with the Part title “Basic rules” due to the addition of another
Part 2 “Extensions” of ISO 8601;
— replacement of the term “midnight” with “beginning of day”, disallowing the value “24” for hour;
— update of terms and definitions:
— “time point” is now “time”;
— “local time” is now “local time of day”;
— added definition for “time of day” and “local time scale”;
— updated definitions for “standard time of day”, “local time of day” and “UTC of day” to rely on
“time of day”;
— combined two “day” terms in different domains for consistency;
— change of the representation of “leap seconds”;
— clarification of “calendar day” expressions intended to mean “calendar day of week” (etc.);
— amendment of the recurring time interval (3.1.1.11) to provide a link to ISO 8601-2:2019 which
contains in Clause 5 the “repeat rules for recurring time intervals”.
A list of all parts in the ISO 8601 series can be found on the ISO website.
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Introduction
The purpose of this document is to provide a standard set of date and time format representations
for information interchange, in order to minimize the risk of misinterpretation, confusion and their
consequences.
This document specifies a set of date and time format representations utilizing numbers, alphabets and
symbols defined in ISO/IEC 646. These representations are meant to be both human recognizable and
machine readable.
This document retains the most commonly used expressions for date and time of day and their
representations from earlier International Standards in the field, including earlier editions of ISO 8601
and its predecessors.
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