On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Darren Reed wrote: > 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.
Very true! > 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 Unfortunately, the format you propose presupposes English speakers. At least if ISO 8601 format is used, that confusion will go away. I'm a strong proponent of using ISO 8601, so I submit that that would be best, given our international audience. > 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 Many things confuse Americans (like how to spell "colour", irony, and the metric measuring system). :-) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com
