Bennett Todd wrote:
But I
think everybody agrees that 2006-01-09 is sometime about now, while
they would disagree whether the oddball formats are around now or in
September.
Hmm. The other revision control system I have most convenient to
hand (RCS) seems to call this 2006/01/09, so even though it's not
using the ISO-8601 / RFC 3339 standard separator, it at least gets
the order right.
-Bennett
Some more info on date formats and parsing:
http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/rhs.nsf/stories/UpdateReNotesDateTime
together with the article that it updates:
http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/rhs.nsf/stories/NotesDateTimeAndInternationalFormats
(I found those by googling for "yyyy-dd-mm" :-) It's about parsing
dates from RSS feeds, which seem to have all kinds of formats, so his
tips could be useful here. Let me quote the footnote of the update article:
"(Now, watch. Somewhere in the world, there's probably a small group
of people who do in fact use YYYY/DD/MM, and I'll hear about it in the
comments, won't I. I've had twenty plus years of experience in the
software biz, including several years as a software localization
specialist, and I've read countless articles and manuals covering
international date and time formats (amongst many other things), and
I've /never/ heard of anyone who uses YYYY/DD/MM format, but now that
I've published an article, someone somewhere is going to have been
offended by it..)"
But it seems nobody added a comment to this article saying s/he used
YYYY/DD/MM format...
So my suggestion would be: at least *allow* date to start with a
four-digit year, and then interpret the next two parts as month then day.
Groetjes,
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Marnix
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