Tim Parkin wrote:
With all of the discussion about iso dates being unreadable and
that an
iso date isn't necessarily required when someone enters a date (i.e.
saying 24th June doesn't translate into a single date, neither does
'thursday'). Shouldn't the focus be on trying to standardise date
formats rather than trying to hide the iso date? If we can get a
parser
to recognise 'human readable' dates (which *is* possible, if not
totally
easy, http://labix.org/python-dateutil for a python version).
I disagree. If you try to make other, human readable formats into a
standard, they will fall short when it comes time to internationaliz
(s)e it. If you can come up with a better format readable to all
machine and all humans in all languages, I'll recant.
I think the ISO 8601 is the best machine data format for the job. I
just don't think it should be in abbr.
James
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