On 3/13/2010 3:35 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Saturday, March 13, 2010 15:21 -0500 "Phillips, Addison" > <[email protected]> wrote:
This is a prime example of the IETF's waste of time and energy. The ISO 8601 date standard is the obvious answer and yet this convo is still going... Todd > >> (from digest) >> >>> >>> ISO not withstanding, its still confusing if only because >>> other cultures use yyddmm. If the IETF website used >>> something like ISO-2010-01-02 maybe. >> >> Actually, for culturally-formatted date strings, cultures that >> prefer day-month order typically put the year at the trailing >> end. It turns out that cultures that put the year first in >> their local date format always use month-day order afterwards. >> >> Unicode's Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project lists >> several hundred locales, which you can browse for both the >> sheer diversity of forms (separators, abbreviations, >> calendars, and such) within the relative homogeneity of >> overall patterns (just three: mdy, dmy, and ymd). See: >> >> http://www.unicode.org/cldr > > Addison, > > While it doesn't change the conclusion, I've actually see many > uses of ydm in the wild. I haven't taken the time to try to > find out, but I've assumed that was the reason why the current > version of ISO 8601 moved to "one delimiter and it is hyphen" > from the permissiveness about delimiter choices in its > predecessors. > > john > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >
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