On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 19:21 +0800, Darren Reed wrote: > 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
YYYY-MM-DD is in my experience not confusing to americans. it has the added benefit of sorting easily. I can see it being more confusing than YYY-Mmm-DD to folks used to DD-MM ordering in dates, though.. - Bill