In message <[email protected]>, Scott Brim writes:
> These technical answers are all great "for use in Internet protocols"
> [3339] but the scope of the question is web pages destined for humans to
> read and understand ... and some humans don't understand them.  You
> could justify what's there now and ignore their problem, or (if your
> goal is communication) you could figure out how to write dates in ways
> that ordinary humans find unambiguous.  I usually write something like
> "2010 Jan 02".  It's not sortable but it's understood even by non-IETFers.

And even that can be confusing if English is not a language you
understand.
 
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