OT: Date format: Was: Re: Mails not from me

Mark mhullrich at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 23:49:40 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> On 10-11-02 05:59 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>> Seriously? People actually use YYYYDDMM?
>>>
>> yeah, Americans. Go figure...
>>
>>
>
> No, they do not.  I'm sure some individuals might make that mistake, but
> no formal standard of any kind exists for YYYY-DD-MM
>
> Americans use MM-DD-YY (or MM-DD-YYYY), which is odd enough, but if you
> see a numerical date starting with the year, then it should always be in
> YYYY-MM-DD format, as the only known standard.
>
Actually, that's just the Canadian format - so what if it makes a lot
of sense?  I think the standard European date format of dd-mm-yyyy to
be absurd, but, to be fair, no more absurd than our mm-dd-yyyy, which
makes no sense at all.

Mark




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