Ben Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I am trying to make standard of
>
>dd/mm/yy
>mm-dd-yy
>yy.mm.dd or yy\mm\dd
>yyyymmdd or yyyy mm dd
>
>for dates so we always know what we're talking about...
Good blinkin' luck. People get attached to their familiar separator
characters. I happen to prefer the dashes (matching your second
format) but many Americans, perhaps the majority, use slashes.
One way to display dates that makes the format instantly obvious is
to use four-digit years, and spell our the month: 23 May 1968
However, this not only requires translation for other languages, it
also makes it harder to sort on a date field. The best long-range
solution, I think, is to provide the ISO standard format, yyyy-mm-dd
as an option if not the default program behavior.
Re: the DATE command and two-digit years: COMMAND.COM supplied with
Bag95 did not support years 00-79, but there are patched versions
available from Microsoft that do. Get the 951 build of COMMAND.COM
if you have the original release of Win95 or OSR1; get the 1112 build
if you have OSR2 or later. These updates also add a /4 switch for
the DIR command to display four-digit date stamps. Windows 98
includes the fixes already. Earlier releases of MS-DOS -- don't hold
your breath.
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