A field guide to the ISO 8601 PnYnMnDTnHnMnS duration grammar, with the four edge cases that ruin most naive parsers and the four programming stacks that implement months four different ways.
A field guide to RFC 2822 dates: how email, HTTP, and legacy archives parse them, what the four converter operations actually do, and how to audit output before shipping.
The ISO 8601 standard is not one format — it is a family of five. Here is how to tell them apart, why the trailing Z matters, and what a real validator actually checks.