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

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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