1、 Reference number ISO 8601:2004(E) ISO 2004INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 8601 Third edition 2004-12-01 Data elements and interchange formats Information interchange Representation of dates and times lments de donnes et formats dchange change dinformation Reprsentation de la date et de lheure ISO 8601:2
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7、 Introduction v 1 Scope 1 2 Terms and definitions. 1 2.1 Basic concepts 1 2.2 Time units, nominal durations and time intervals . 4 2.3 Representations and formats 7 3 Fundamental principles 7 3.1 Basic rules . 7 3.2 Time scales 8 3.3 Representations and format representations 10 3.4 Characters used
8、in the representations . 10 3.5 Expansion 12 3.6 Leading zeros 12 3.7 Mutual agreement . 12 4 Date and time representations. 13 4.1 Date. 13 4.2 Time of day 15 4.3 Date and time of day. 18 4.4 Time interval 20 4.5 Recurring time interval. 23 5 Date and time format representations 25 Annex A (informa
9、tive) Relationship to ISO 2014, ISO 2015, ISO 2711, ISO 3307 and ISO 4031 . 26 Annex B (informative) Examples of representations 27 Bibliography . 33 ISO 8601:2004(E) iv ISO 2004 All rights reservedForeword ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of nationa
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13、ast 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO 8601 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 154
14、, Processes, data elements and documents in commerce, industry and administration. This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition (ISO 8601:2000), of which it constitutes a minor revision. ISO 8601:2004(E) ISO 2004 All rights reserved vIntroduction Although ISO Recommendations and Standa
15、rds in this field have been available since 1971, different forms of numeric representation of dates and times have been in common use in different countries. Where such representations are interchanged across national boundaries misinterpretation of the significance of the numerals can occur, resul
16、ting in confusion and other consequential errors or losses. The purpose of this International Standard is to eliminate the risk of misinterpretation and to avoid the confusion and its consequences. This International Standard includes specifications for a numeric representation of information regard
17、ing date and time of day. In addition this International Standard includes specifications for representation of the formats of these numeric representations. In order to achieve similar formats for the representations of calendar dates, ordinal dates, dates identified by week number, time intervals,
18、 recurring time intervals, combined date and time of day, and differences between local time and UTC of day, and to avoid ambiguities between these representations, it has been necessary to use, apart from numeric characters, either single alphabetic characters or other graphic characters or a combi
19、nation of alphabetic and other characters in some of the representations. The above action has had the benefit of enhancing the versatility and general applicability of previous International Standards in this field, and provides for the unique representation of any date or time expression or combin
20、ation of these. Each representation can be easily recognized, which is beneficial when human interpretation is required. This International Standard retains the most commonly used expressions for date and time of day and their representations from the earlier International Standards and provides uni
21、que representations for some new expressions used in practice. Its application in information interchange, especially between data processing systems and associated equipment will eliminate errors arising from misinterpretation and the costs these generate. The promotion of this International Standa
22、rd will not only facilitate interchange across international boundaries, but will also improve the portability of software, and will ease problems of communication within an organization, as well as between organizations. Several of the alphabetic and graphic characters used in the text of this Inte
23、rnational Standard are common both to the representations specified and to normal typographical presentation. Note that for units of time in plain text the symbols given in ISO 31-1 should be used. To avoid confusion between the representations and the actual text, its punctuation marks and associat
24、ed graphic characters, all the representations are contained in brackets . The brackets are not part of the representation, and should be omitted when implementing the representations. All matter outside the brackets is normal text, and not part of the representation. In the associated examples, the
25、 brackets and typographical markings are omitted. INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 8601:2004(E) ISO 2004 All rights reserved 1Data elements and interchange formats Information interchange Representation of dates and times 1 Scope This International Standard is applicable whenever representation of dates i
26、n the Gregorian calendar, times in the 24-hour timekeeping system, time intervals and recurring time intervals or of the formats of these representations are included in information interchange. It includes calendar dates expressed in terms of calendar year, calendar month and calendar day of the mo
27、nth; ordinal dates expressed in terms of calendar year and calendar day of the year; week dates expressed in terms of calendar year, calendar week number and calendar day of the week; local time based upon the 24-hour timekeeping system; Coordinated Universal Time of day; local time and the differen
28、ce from Coordinated Universal Time; combination of date and time of day; time intervals; recurring time intervals. This International Standard does not cover dates and times where words are used in the representation and dates and times where characters are not used in the representation. This Inter
29、national Standard does not assign any particular meaning or interpretation to any data element that uses representations in accordance with this International Standard. Such meaning will be determined by the context of the application. 2 Terms and definitions For the purposes of this document, the f
30、ollowing terms and definitions apply. 2.1 Basic concepts 2.1.1 time axis mathematical representation of the succession in time of instantaneous events along a unique axis IEC 60050-111 2.1.2 instant point on the time axis IEC 60050-111 NOTE An instantaneous event occurs at a specific instant. ISO 86
31、01:2004(E) 2 ISO 2004 All rights reserved2.1.3 time interval part of the time axis limited by two instants IEC 60050-111 NOTE A time interval comprises all instants between the two limiting instants and, unless otherwise stated, the limiting instants themselves. 2.1.4 time scale system of ordered ma
32、rks which can be attributed to instants on the time axis, one instant being chosen as the origin IEC 60050-111 NOTE 1 A time scale may amongst others be chosen as: continuous, e.g. international atomic time (TAI) (see IEC 60050-713, item 713-05-18); continuous with discontinuities, e.g. Coordinated
33、Universal Time (UTC) due to leap seconds, standard time due to summer time and winter time; successive steps, e.g. usual calendars, where the time axis is split up into a succession of consecutive time intervals and the same mark is attributed to all instants of each time interval; discrete, e.g. in
34、 digital techniques. NOTE 2 For physical and technical applications, a time scale with quantitative marks is preferred, based on a chosen initial instant together with a unit of measurement. NOTE 3 Customary time scales use various units of measurement in combination, such as second, minute, hour, o
35、r various time intervals of the calendar such as calendar day, calendar month and calendar year. NOTE 4 A time scale has a reference point which attributes one of the marks of the time scale to one of the instants, thus determining the attribution of marks to instants for the time scale. 2.1.5 time
36、point date time mark attributed to an instant by means of a specified time scale IEC 60050-111 NOTE 1 On a time scale consisting of successive steps, two distinct instants may be expressed by the same time point (see Note 1 of the term “time scale”). NOTE 2 For many time scales with quantitative mar
37、ks, the numerical value of the time point of an instant may also be considered to be equal to the duration between the origin of the time scale and the considered instant. NOTE 3 In IEC 60050-111 this definition corresponds with the term “date”. NOTE 4 The term “time” is often used in common languag
38、e. However, it should only be used if the meaning is clearly visible from the context, since the term “time” is also used with other meanings. 2.1.6 duration non-negative quantity attributed to a time interval, the value of which is equal to the difference between the time points of the final instan
39、t and the initial instant of the time interval, when the time points are quantitative marks IEC 60050-111 ISO 8601:2004(E) ISO 2004 All rights reserved 3NOTE 1 In the case of discontinuities in the time scale, such as a leap second or the change from winter time to summer time and back, the computat
40、ion of the duration requires the subtraction or addition of the change of duration of the discontinuity. NOTE 2 Duration is one of the base quantities in the International System of Quantities (ISQ) on which the International System of Units (SI) is based. The term “time” instead of “duration” is of
41、ten used in this context. NOTE 3 For the term “duration”, expressions such as “time” or “time interval” are often used. The term “time” is not recommended in this sense and the term “time interval” is deprecated in this sense to avoid confusion with the concept “time interval”. NOTE 4 The SI unit of
42、 duration is the second. 2.1.7 nominal duration duration expressed amongst others in years, months, weeks or days NOTE The duration of a calendar year, a calendar month, a calendar week or a calendar day depends on its position in the calendar. Therefore, the exact duration of a nominal duration can
43、 only be evaluated if the duration of the calendar years, calendar months, calendar weeks or calendar days used are known. 2.1.8 date time point representing a calendar day on a time scale consisting of an origin and a succession of calendar days NOTE In IEC 60050-111 this definition corresponds wit
44、h the term “calendar date”. 2.1.9 calendar date date representing a particular calendar day by its calendar year, its calendar month and its ordinal number within its calendar month 2.1.10 ordinal date date representing a particular calendar day by its calendar year and its ordinal number within its
45、 calendar year 2.1.11 week date date representing a particular calendar day by the calendar year to which its calendar week belongs, the ordinal number of its calendar week within that calendar year and its ordinal number within its calendar week 2.1.12 Coordinated Universal Time UTC time scale whic
46、h forms the basis of a coordinated radio dissemination of standard frequencies and time signals; it corresponds exactly in rate with international atomic time, but differs from it by an integral number of seconds IEC 60050-713 NOTE 1 UTC is established by the International Bureau of Weights and Meas
47、ures (BIPM, i.e. Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) and the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS). UTC provides the basis of standard time, the use of which is legal in most countries. The 15th Confrence Gneral des Poids et Mesures (CGPM) (1975) judged in its Resolution 5 that this usa
48、ge can be strongly recommended. NOTE 2 UTC is adjusted to UT1 by the insertion or deletion of seconds, known as “leap seconds”. NOTE 3 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is internationally replaced by UTC. UTC is often (incorrectly) referred to as GMT. UTC is generally used by aviation and maritime navigatio
49、n that also uses local apparent time and local mean time for celestial navigation (see ISO 19018). ISO 8601:2004(E) 4 ISO 2004 All rights reservedNOTE 4 Additional information can be found as follows: the URL for the ITU http:/www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-r/rec/tf/index.html the URL for the International Bureau of Weights and Measures http:/www.bipm.fr the URL for the International Earth Rotation Service http:/hpiers.obspm.fr. 2.1.13 UTC of day quantitative expression marking an instan
