[SOLVED] [REQUEST] ISO 8601 compliant Zettel IDs

GraemeWeston

Currently, The Archive generates Zettel IDs that are not strictly compliant with with the latest ISO 8601 standard. According to Wikipedia, since 2019 the ISO 8601 standard requires a "T" to be present between the date and time sections. It would be great if ISO 8601 compliant Zettel IDs could be incorporated into a future release, preferably as a predefined native option.

I figure, if one is going to use a date and time stamp as an ID (and I can see the benefits of doing so), then the ID may as well be strictly ISO 8601 compliant.

I realise this is pedantic, not massively important, and can easily solved by other means (TextExpander, etc.). It'd just be a nice touch.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 § "Combined date and time representations"

ctietze

Most non-techies won't care for ISO standards, but you'll be covered when custom Zettel ID templates ship eventually. Will come back there once that's a thing.

For reference, here's some similar requests
https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/190/request-configurable-id-stamp
https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/281/feature-request-add-seconds-to-auto-title
https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/1758/allow-the-user-to-provide-a-date-format-for-new-files

ctietze

@GraemeWeston You can now customize this as a hidden preference as of v1.7.15 (2024-07-11):
https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/help/#hidden-preferences

Yours would be yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss (note the escaping of the literal "T" with ')