On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sam Tregar wrote:
Hello all. I'm working on an application which will provide a flexible data upload system. Users will upload CSV files containing data from other systems and they'll provide meta-data which will allow the application to load that data into the system. One of the kinds of data I need to support is date fields. I was imagining I'd offer the user a selection of "standard" date formats to pick from, along with examples. Does anyone know where I could find such a list?
I don't know of any list, and I'm not sure what type of standard you want. There's standards for computers and standards for humans ;)
A pretty simple standard that both computers and humans can handle is ISO8601, "2005-09-23T11:57:00". You can replace the "T" with a space and it's quite human-readable.
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