Working Group

WG 5

Date and time

The scope of WG5 is to provide a common platform for all date and time stakeholders, to enable a unified, interoperable of date and time across populations and systems. Specifically, the work involves the standardization of concepts and semantics related to date and time, systems and processes that use or measure date and time, and the interoperability of information systems that utilize date and time.

First established
2013established
Active

Overview

WG 5 provides a common platform for all date and time stakeholders, to enable a unified, interoperable of date and time across populations and systems. It publishes the ISO 8601 family of standards in ubiquitous use today.

WG 5 was established to manage ISO 8601, the international date time standard.