> there are more "short" date formats than you can shake a stick
> at. just for instance, "yyyy. mm. dd." for hungarian, "dd/mm/yyyy"
> for malaysia, "d. m. yyyy" for slovak, "d/m/yyyy" for thai. i think
> japanese might be "yyyy/mm/dd".
True but the point here is, as I was trying to touch on, whether the
delimiters are actually important or if its just the ordering of the date
elements. If a Malaysian date 12. 10. 2001 is valid and 12/10/2001 is also
valid then its not a very significant problem to overcome
> you haven't even touched on the different calendars in use
> (gregorian, buddhist, japanese emperor era, hebrew, tangun,
> hijiri are just the more popular). you'll also have to determine
> how to trap a user's locale. a can of worms, but ben's new cf5
> book might have a chapter on this.....
A can of worms I don't want to get anywhere near as well :-)
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