Christopher Molnar wrote:
> In cooker the cvs date is 8-1-2000 (or
> for those who like dates backwords: 2000-08-01 -:) )
Errr, nothing backwards here. What you consider a 'normal' date
representation is the backwards one.
yyyymmdd just gets dates to follow the well-known and
universally-accepted representation of numeric fields - most
significant (hundreds - years) on the left, least significant (units
- days) on the right.
See how sensible and conventional it is?
This way avoids the problem and ambiguiities of dd-mm versus mm-dd
representation, is easily extensible to the left to include
hours-minutes-seconds.decimal-seconds, and easily permits hand
arithmetic (addition, subtraction) between two date/times as long as
the carries to the right take account of the radix for the unit being
borrowed or carried.
Nice? Join my campaign to stamp out everything else...
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