On Oct 13, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Terry Ford wrote:
No more boring than any other format. Check out the settings for
various countries on your computer. On Mac, most of them put the
year at the end. There are many variations of month and day though.
The rule of thumb is like an old saying, "When in Rome, do as the
Romans do." If an American wrote it, assume american date standards.
Or better still, avoid short dates entirely. :)
The only two rules I ever found that worked were
1) use ISO format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss (or the ever interesting
number form YYYYMMDDhhmmss which works nicely for some databases)
2) use the "word form" of months and a 4 digit year (ie/ April 14
2007 , 14 April 2007, 2007 14 April, 14 2007 April) Regrdless of how
you mess it up you can figure out the date meant
Beyond those two it's a crap shoot.
What is 01/02/03 ? (which has occurred)
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