On 09/14/2013 07:20 AM, John Gilmore wrote: > This date format, yy/mm/dd---yyyy/mm/dd would of course be better---is > in no way ambiguous. It is an ISO/ANSI standard 'descending' date, > the crucial merits of which are that it is 1) unambiguous and 2) > immediately orderable/sortable. Its exclusive use is also a very > imperfectly honored FIPS requirement. > > Another of its merits is that it is neither the traditional American > mm/dd/yy nor the traditional British dd/mm/yy format. Itr does not > take sides in that ancient dispute. (There is no 'European' format; > or, better, there are [too] many of them.) > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA >
Just to be precise, the ISO standard for dates is more than just order. If punctuation is used, the standard requires "-", not "/", as in: yyyy-mm-dd -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
