In the UK we use day-month-year. I have never seen year-day-month. day-month-year and year-month-day are both logical formats I can use. the us norm of year-day-month is the only one that I find profoundly illogical. I would usually require it to be re-written in an unambiguous form in company docs.
For filenames I would recommend the ISO format as it collates correctly. Which is of course why our British version of the Internet had a naming system that worked in the logical order msb->lsb uk.co.ac.ox On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM, bill manning <bmann...@isi.edu> wrote: > ISO not withstanding, its still confusing if only because other cultures use > yyddmm. If the IETF website used something like ISO-2010-01-02 maybe. > > This format is less confusing: 02jan2010 > > --bill > > > On 13March2010Saturday, at 7:06, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > >> >> >> On Mar 13, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Cullen Jennings wrote: >> >>> >>> I just got abused by someone reading the IESG web pages and pointing out >>> dates like 2010-01-02 , are confusing. Is there a better way to do dates >>> that we should be using on the ietf.org web pages? >>> >>> >> >> I would disagree. This follows an ISO standard, ISO 8601, and also happens >> to sort properly (in time order). >> >> From http://www.iso.org/iso/date_and_time_format >> >> ISO 8601 advises numeric representation of dates and times on an >> internationally agreed basis. It represents elements from the largest to the >> smallest element: year-month-day: >> • Calendar date is the most common date representation. It is: >> YYYY-MM-DD >> >> where YYYY is the year in the Gregorian calendar, MM is the month of the >> year between 01 (January) and 12 (December), and DD is the day of the month >> between 01 and 31. >> >> Example: 2003-04-01 represents the first day of April in 2003. >> >> >> >> So, 2010-01-02 is January 2, 2010. >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> Marshall >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ietf mailing list >>> Ietf@ietf.org >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@ietf.org >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > -- -- New Website: http://hallambaker.com/ View Quantum of Stupid podcasts, Tuesday and Thursday each week, http://quantumofstupid.com/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
