I too strongly agree with Paul. The YYYY/MM/DD format sorts numerically; something that I gravitated to when a lad with database set-up and administration.
This format also seems the most logical to me. In the grand scope of things, the millenium, century, year, month, day typically take precedence in that order. And now that we increasingly are interacting with a global market - a consistant, logical, and readily understood data format seems as important as ever.... Thad Weakley American expat in Montreal, Quebec > ---- Sunclocks North America <sunclock...@icloud.com> wrote: > > ============= > This has always been a pet peeve of mine! > All of these differing date formats are confusing, as you can never really be sure > which one people are using. Here in Canada, it's even worse because some people put > the month first like in the USA and others put the day first and yet others put the > year first! Nobody can be sure if something like 10/11/12 means October 11th 2012, > November 10th 2012 or November 12th 2010! At least now that we're in 2013, some of > that confusion is gone for the next 87 years. > I think that the best way which everyone in the world understands is to start a four > digit year: yyyy/mm/dd, and all the confusion goes away with the simple addition of two > characters. Plus the dates can be easily sorted numerically. It's pretty much the > only date format I ever use unless I spell out the month. > > Paul Ratto > SunClocks North America > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > -- ------------------------ Peter Mayer Discipline of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) School of History & Politics http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/historypolitics/ The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 Ph : +61 8 8313 5609 Fax : +61 8 8313 3443 e-mail: peter.ma...@adelaide.edu.au CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply email and immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or reproduction of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. No representation is made that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
