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The Saturday 2007-03-03 at 16:05 -0000, peter nikolic wrote:
> > > DD/MM/YYYY
> > > the best all round soloution ..
> > No, the best is following the ISO standard. That's what they are for,
> > standards.
>
> Not Realy .
>
> The ISO standard of YYYY/MM/DD is not the most efficent way of using a date
>
> example " you want to know the date you look at the ISO standard date
> you have to wade thru the year the month to find the day date normally
> the most used part of the date string whereas DD/MM/YYYY the important
> bit is right at th front of the string DD then you can read the rest if
> you need it ..
It is not efficient for you because it is not what you are used to. But,
being a standard, it avoids confusion, specially in international
conversations. It is in fact very efficient, because the most
significant number is always written at the left, and the least at the
right - therefore years must go to the left, then month, then day. It is
the logical way.
A bunch of dates can be sorted just by alphabetical sort, like in a
directory listing.
And no, it is not the way I grew up which, nor my country use. It feels
strange, but it is the standard, so I use it.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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