traditional British dd/mm/yy? Surely you meant to say "almost all of the rest of the world..."
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John Gilmore > Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 5:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and > COBOL V5) > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
