[ogb-discuss] Standarising on one clear date format

Bill Sommerfeld sommerfeld at sun.com
Thu Apr 24 11:52:47 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 19:21 +0800, Darren Reed wrote:
> While ISO 8601 specifies the format should be YYYY-MM-DD (or
> 2008-04-24) and adopting it would mean we can say we're ISO 8601
> compliant, moving to this format could be confusing for Americans 

YYYY-MM-DD is in my experience not confusing to americans.  it has the
added benefit of sorting easily.

I can see it being more confusing than YYY-Mmm-DD to folks used to DD-MM
ordering in dates, though..

						- Bill




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