Re: date formats

[Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>]

David Lawyer wrote:

> > ... I now realize that there is really no standard date format
> >
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
> >
> > "A Summary of the International Standard Date and Time Notation"
> 
> Yes, I knew there was a "standard" but it doesn't seem to be widely
> implemented.
> 
> >
> > > The international standard date notation is
> > >
> > >    YYYY-MM-DD
> 
> But a lot of people will be confused by this.  If the doc is is
> English, why not use the existing date format?

Because anything but that standard creates confusion.

> > For example, the fourth day of February in the year 1995 is
> > written in the standard notation as
> >
> > >    1995-02-04
> Some might think this is April 2.

Being Canadian, I write that February 4th 1995 as 04/02/1995.
I think many Europeans use something similar.
An American writes it as 02/04/1995.

The international standard eliminates that confusion.


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