I'll be happy to take the ISO date format in any way I can. You see, whereas
in the U.S. you may be used to the 08/12/04, it is often confused up here as
there are some who insist on using 12/08/04. I always used to figure that
anything with slashes and six digits would be the U.S. format, but that is
not necessarily so anymore. Too many cash registers here now use DD/MM/YY.
I really can't see anyone being confused by the ISO date, even those of you
to the South of us. :-)
Erik
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:44
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] %date%
>
>
>
> >Yes, the international standard is indeed YYYY-MM-DD and if
> separated by
> >hyphens as shown, there can be absolutely no confusion.
>
> There are two "confusions" here. One is whether or not the
> date format can
> be mis-read (for example, some people see "08-12-2004" as
> being today,
> while others see it as a date several months from now). That
> is not an
> issue with YYYY-MM-DD (technically, it could be confused with
> YYYY-DD-MM,
> but nobody is known to use that format). The other type of
> confusion is
> understanding what you are looking at. Someone in the U.S.
> is likely to
> see "Received on: 2004-08-12" and think that it is some code.
>
> >But, why can Declude not simply use the setting in Windows?
> Then everyone
> >can use their own for their specific locality.
>
> Because the Internet is global, and only an extremely small
> percentage of
> Internet users have ever not connected to computers in
> countries that use a
> different date format. That's why we're encouraging the
> international-friendly date format. I think that adding code
> to make it
> easier for people to support a confusing non-standard isn't
> worth the time. :)
>
> -Scott
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