Jim Elwell wrote on 2002-10-14 13:54 UTC: > The vast majority of people the world over use a calender with named months > (i.e., January, February, ...). > > We should write dates to make life easy for humans, not computers. > > Today is 13 October 2002.
And ISO 8601 explicitely says that it does *not* aim at replacing these. All ISO aims at is replacing all other *all-numeric* formats, such as 10/13/02 or 13.10.02, and there can't be anything wrong with that. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
