Ben Bucksch wrote:

By John Leyden <mailto:john.leyden@;theregister.co.uk>
Posted: 05/11/2002 at 10:38 GMT

5 November 2002 10:38am

This is today, 2002-11-05 (CET and PST, in ISO notation)

<insert rant about broken English date notations>
Or at least a rant about US reader not knowing that other formats are used, and where they are used.

M/D/Y, D/M/Y, Y/M/D, and even Y/D/M .
That's why I started using month names. Clears the confusion.

Still, I prefer YYYYMMDD, which I was introduced to in the military, since numeric order and chronological order are the same then.

-Thomas


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