Ben Bucksch wrote:
Or at least a rant about US reader not knowing that other formats are used, and where they are used.By John Leyden <mailto:john.leyden@;theregister.co.uk> Posted: 05/11/2002 at 10:38 GMT 5 November 2002 10:38am This is today, 2002-11-05 (CET and PST, in ISO notation) <insert rant about broken English date notations>
M/D/Y, D/M/Y, Y/M/D, and even Y/D/M .
That's why I started using month names. Clears the confusion.
Still, I prefer YYYYMMDD, which I was introduced to in the military, since numeric order and chronological order are the same then.
-Thomas
