The international Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 130 countries, one from each country.

UTC time now in ISO format is:

Current time from our server which is synchronized via NTP For informational purposes only.

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ISO is a non-governmental organization established in 1947. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity.

Date and Time format is defined by: ISO 8601:2000 Data elements and interchange formats -- Information interchange -- Representation of dates and times (available in English only)

• Official ISO website: www.iso.org

• The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ); the organisation that defines web standards has a note on ISO date and time format here