At present most of the OpenSolaris documents seem to use the US date format of MM/DD/YY (ie. fast track documents for PSARC.) Besides dates like 08/08/08, there are times when 05/06/07 can be interpreted any number of ways, depending on which locale you're from. Not so much fun until you remember to load the North American locale filter into your brain.
For the purpose of filling out forms and other official documentation that requires a date, I'd like to propose that we implement an OpenSolaris wide change to a date format that cannot be confused for anything other than what it is: YYYY-MMM-DD e.g. 2008-Apr-24 While ISO 8601 specifies the format should be YYYY-MM-DD (or 2008-04-24) and adopting it would mean we can say we're ISO 8601 compliant, moving to this format could be confusing for Americans and that would defeat the purpose of this proposal: to move to a date format that cannot be confused with the wrong date. Of course this doesn't apply to www.opensolaris.org's front page (where we have "May 5, 2008") but in general, it might be a good idea to move away from using two digits for the month regardless of where/how. Darren
