The order yyyymmdd is used a lot with various separators in computers and digital media files as alphabetic sorting rules sort into data order. In ISO8601, the only allowable separator in date format is a hyphen, or no separator, so, at best, they are using "mutant ISO8601."
--- On Mon, 4/6/09, STANLEY DOORE <stan.do...@verizon.net> wrote: From: STANLEY DOORE <stan.do...@verizon.net> Subject: [USMA:44434] ISO date format To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 1:43 AM On Sunday, a Fox News Channel clip from Prague television showed the date format of the clip as (yyyy.mm.dd) i.e. 2009.04.05 Isn't it interesting that others are moving to the ISO standard date format? Stan Doore
