Did you know that ISO 8601 is a very large standard that describes more than a single date and time format?
It describes periods, repetitions, many different syntax of describing years, week-of-year, day-of-year, seasons, quarters, semesters, trimesters.
It's mostly unknown because the standards are paywalled: you can't just read ISO 8601 without paying ISO money.
Most of the time, when people refer to ISO 8601, they mean the subset that is described in RFC 3339.
"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. published this day in 1969.
#KurtVonnegutJr #SlaughterhouseFive
We've had a few quite warm days, but the nights were below zero. Found some some frozen birch sap. Sweet.
Amidon - ein Mastodon Client für Amiga OS3 ist in Version 1.0 erschienen.
#commodore #amiga #amigaos #amigaworld #mastodon #social #software #retro
@cbdawson You're one of today's lucky 10,000 :) https://xkcd.com/1053/
@cbdawson XKCD helped me to understand the world. I wish there were such resources in my childhood.
In Germany, teaching the Holocaust is mandatory.
It includes visits to concentration camp, museums, etc. They don't shy away from their own ugly history. Yet the kids aren't damaged; they're strengthened, matured, humbled. The U.S. needs to do same with slavery.
Not that complicated.
@lowqualityfacts Ernest Hemingway was ill,. Iterate.
@StephanMatthiesen I think bokononism has a term for this, searching...
Particle physicist Mary Katharine Gaillard was born #OTD in 1939. She and Benjamin Lee predicted the mass of the charm quark in 1974, and she was the first tenured woman on the physics faculty at UC Berkeley.
Image: Emilio Segre Visual Archives/AIP/SPL
@Tuumaru Jesus. Oh, wait, two Jesuses.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #trees, trying not to disturb the wildlife too much.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Coding in #Python.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.