I'm American from Brazil we always use dd/mm/yyyy :-) Anyway, in a "computer context" I think that yyyy-mm-dd is a good design, because I'ts easier to sort and organize by a script in a cronological order.
As it may cause a lot of confusion, I assume that one way is to use a tag to identify date format use, like "GMT-3" when we write about time. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Joel Jaeggli <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/17/2010 09:18 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > Absolutely. But Americans don't expect this kind of stuff to make > > sense, because they're used to having a different way of measuring > > everything, while in the rest of the world we're used to the metric > > system so we assume things make sense. So an American wouldn't > > necessarily consider yyyy-dd-mm inconceivable while people from > > elsewhere probably would and just assume yyyy-mm-dd. > > I think you're generalizing to some potentially non-existant superset of > a population that may or may not read internet drafts. I'm really not > sure that's relevant. > > A group in my organization (based in the uk no less) was just hosed by a > windows api that represents months using their spelling and is therefore > locale dependant, I'd rather prefer rfc-3339, somehow rather than > worrying that the report for the month of февраль din't get generated. > > _______________________________________________ > > Ietf mailing list [email protected] > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >
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