On 7/2/07, Jeff Garland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Clark wrote: > > > I would suggest one format used as consistently as possible -- one we > > can read, and that the machine can parse, and then situations that are > > read by both machine and human don't require choosing-rules. > > No debate on that. > > > Other countries (I assume you're American) are able to figure out that > > Yep, I'm American. > > > the 07 is the month, just as they can figure out that in a number, > > thousands are followed by hundreds, then by tens, then by ones. > > Americans tend to want to reverse it from the archaic accounting > > practices. > > Well, I don't want to get into some international fight about who does what > for what reason. It's enough to say that there are many different formats > used by different cultures for their own set of reasons.
I've found the least issues with ISO than with various country-colloquial formats, but I've only personally been employed in 7 countries. The dashes are different enough from colloquial formats that assumptions are less frequent than you might think. My limited experience still votes for ISO as a single format usable by both humans and parsers and yielding the lower frequency of error. YMMV, and I only have one virtual vote. Allan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
