[ogb-discuss] Standarising on one clear date format

[Garrett D'Amore]

Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> 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..
>   

Most technical minded folks easily grok YYYY-MM-DD. The four-digit year 
up front pretty much clears up any potential confusion. Plus, I like the 
sorting benefit as well.

So, count me as +1 for ISO 8601.

-- Garrett
> 						- Bill
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