Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > 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.. >
Most technical minded folks easily grok YYYY-MM-DD. The four-digit year up front pretty much clears up any potential confusion. Plus, I like the sorting benefit as well. So, count me as +1 for ISO 8601. -- Garrett > - Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss >
