Dear Andy and All, ISO 8601 is essentially about the order that you use to present information about dates, that is, it suggests that you go from biggest to smallest: Year --> month --> day. ISO 8601 is very flexibly on how you do this. These seem OK under ISO 8601. 2001 Feb 13 2001Feb13 2001-02-13 20010213 2001.02.13 If you are in any doubt about the clarity of the date, to people unfamiliar with the new date format, then I suggest the first or the second format. If you are labelling draft documents or putting dates on your email then I suggest you use one of the others. Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia on 2001-02-08 13.58, Andy Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BUT > if I were to send a letter to somebody in Jacksonville > about 02-01-2001, I would be understood to mean Feb. > 1, 2001. How do I start to use your suggested format, > the ISO format, without causing ambiguity? > Andy > --- Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Here in Jacksonville, Florida, I see February 21, >>> 2001, and I also see 2-21-2001, but I really never >>> observe, locally, any other way of writing the >> date. >> >> Dear Andy and All, >> >> In a widely ignored notice the Australian Government >> expressed its support >> for the yyyy-mm-dd format in 1998, that is the >> Australian Government >> formally supports ISO 8601.
