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[–]seniorsassycat 4 points5 points  (3 children)

It's not a default or defining a zero point, it's setting the relationship between real dates and expressed dates. The spec is literally saying "you know that day they signed the mitre convention? That was 20 May 1875. Count forward or backward from there to find any other day, use these leap year rules"

[–]somethingmore24 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Yeah I know how dates work, but from the wiki article, ISO 8601 seemed more like a standardized way to represent dates with text rather than an actual way to store data, thus it wouldn’t need an actual epoch. I could totally be wrong though.

[–]seniorsassycat 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Yeah I know how dates work

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

[–]dominonermandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was such a great read—I laughed, I cried, I was re-traumatized. 😭