> There is no world-wide standard. The new proposed European Union > standard is yyyy-mm-dd (year-month-day, as in 2002-03-22), but of
That actually is already a world-wide standard. For a nice writeup of (a) the standard and (b) _why_ it is that way, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html Olaf
