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JavaScript: Formatting ISO 8601 Complete Date-Time to a Readable One

Greetings! The complete ISO 8601 date-time format is: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ Breaking that down: YYYY Four-digit year. -MM Two-digit month (01–12). -DD Two-digit day (01–31). T Literal separator between date and time. HH Two-digit hour (00–23, 24-hour clock). :mm Two-digit minute (00–59). :ss Two-digit second (00–59). .sss three-digit millisecond. Z Indicates UTC ("Zulu time"). If we're using a specific offset instead, it'd be +HH:mm or -HH:mm in place of Z . "Zulu": UTC used to be referred to by the letter Z in navigation and military contexts, meaning "zero offset" from Greenwich. So Z for zero-offset time, spoken aloud as "Zulu" per the phonetic alphabet. Hence,...

Rogue Blitz: Italian Game: Blackburne-Kostić Gambit

I Played White Hi, there! 👋 This is the opening position of the gambit: The 3...Nd4 , that Black's knight move to d4 . Very PROVOCATIVE. Anyway, though looks free, we shouldn't take the e5 pawn. It's quite poisonous. 💀 Let the amusement begin! You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board. Blackburne-Kostić and the Gambit Righto, here's the brief history on the pair of them. Joseph Henry Blackburne 1841 to 1924. Blackburne was an English chess player, one of the strongest in the world during the latter half of the 19th century. He picked up the game relatively late, in his late teens, after reportedly being inspired by news of Paul Morphy's exploits, and went on to become a fearsome attacking player and a legendary blindfold specialist . Sometimes taking on dozens of opponents simultaneously ...
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