What’s the difference between ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 Date Formats?

Is one just an extension? Pretty much, yes – RFC 3339 is listed as a profile of ISO 8601. Most notably RFC 3339 specifies a complete representation of date and time (only fractional seconds are optional). The RFC also has some small, subtle differences. For example truncated representations of years with only two digits are not allowed … Read more

Difference between UTC and GMT

Astronomy versus Atomic clock By the original definitions the difference is that GMT (also officially known as Universal Time (UT), which may be confusing) is based on astronomical observations while UTC is based on atomic clocks. Later GMT has become to be used at least unofficially to refer to UTC, which blurs the distinction somewhat. GMT stands for Greenwich … Read more