Add ISO8601 formatting option to <t:timestamp> feature.

sky.cactus

The new timestamp feature is great, but it is very frustrating that it provides 7 different ways to format the timestamp and none of them are the long established international standard way to represent a date/time (ISO-8601).

Please see https://xkcd.com/1179/ for more details. Or https://web.archive.org/web/20171020084445/https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/ISO_DIS%208601-1.pdf if you want the full specification.

TL;DR: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss is the most common usage of the standard.  There are a number of variations on that if you want to make slight tweaks.

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  • sky.cactus

    At the *least* please add support for YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.  This isn't strictly ISO8601 but it is really close (swaps the `T` separator out for a space) and it is the most logical representation of time that also fits naturally into English language writing (and most others as well).

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  • Kauane Pires campos

    Olá como usa isso aqui

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  • MixD

    Agreed this would be great.  Using space between the date and time (instead of "T") is the human-friendly way too.

    I also advocate for options to include a localised day name (full or abbreviated) between the date and time:
    2022-07-29 Fri 23:59:59

    And an option to explicitly report the timezone offset used:
    2022-07-29 Fri 23:59:59 +0130

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  • JJRcop

    There is an older similar post with more likes than this one. Maybe it's a good idea to support that.

    https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4404419021079-Support-ISO-8601-in-new-t-time-formatter-

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  • MixD

    JJRcop, that's for a different feature.
    That post: ISO 8601 as an input format.
    This post: ISO 8601 as an output format.

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