Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Rich Teer wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Is it too late to petition for a slight change in nomenclature? >> I'd rather see the ISO 8601 compatible "2008-11" being used >> rather than "2008.11", and I know I'm not alone. >> > > Sounds like a matter for the Indiana project, not the OGB. > > (Personally, I prefer 2008.11 since it can be used in places that > expect period-separated version numbers, but I suppose that > annoys people in locales that use commas for decimals.) >
I personally am not aware of any locale that uses commas for decimals in any date context. ICBWT. I also suspect that ISO-conformance/compatibility is out of place here; and that the consensus (ie. the Community decision) will sway (correctly, IMO) towards the more generally accepted dotted notation. Regards... Sean.
