On 2007-12-17 at 20:22 +0100, Anders Hellström wrote: > On 17 dec 2007, at 19.52, Phil Pennock wrote: >> On 2007-12-17 at 19:27 +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: >>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:16:08 +0000, David Cantrell >>> <da...@cantrell.org.uk> >>> wrote: >>>> Until very recently I could tell Barclays that I wanted to make a >>>> payment on, eg, 3/1/2008. Now I have to pay on 03/01/2008. >>> >>> DD/MM or MM/DD ? HATE! >> >> Barclays is British and therefore handle this in the same way as the >> rest of the non-American world, dd/mm/yyyy. >> > > What an american thing to say. The rest of Britain perhaps. We tend to use > yyyy-mm-dd here in Sweden, a country which I'm led to believe is a full > member of non-America.
That's right, Mr Troll. That's ISO 8601, and when yyyy comes first it's yyyy-mm-dd, no exceptions. The only issue is what happens when the year comes _last_. There are two options (assuming 4-digit years (hah!)), and the USA uses one, everyone else uses the other. The Americans went "we're replacing a name with a number, that's all, so Dec 17th, 2007 becomes 12-17-2007" whereas everyone else went "mixing up ascending and descending numbers like that is something only those people who, years from now, will design the PDP computers will think is right; that's crazy and wrong". -Phil
