Does anybody know the formal name of the YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS date format used by a MySQL DATETIME? Is there one? It looks close to ISO 8601, but it's different enough to break in most applications if you try to use the two interchangeably.
Sometimes I find myself needing to refer to this particular format in conversation, but referring to it as "the DATETIME format" always draws blanks from those who haven't done much work with databases. I'm accustomed to date formats having official names and extremely formal definitions. (RFC 2822, anyone?) So, does one exist?
MySQL's Date and Time Literals are described in the reference manual. AFAICS, there's neither ISO nor any other name mentioned.
Wikipedia, ISO 8601 shows the ISO combined date and time format, which is "2012-12-04T20:03" ("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM") and differs from the mentioned MySQL datetime format.
So, although it looks roughly like an ISO datetime, I would just call it MySQL or SQL format.