How is DD/MM/YYYY a confusing format? The vast majority of the world uses this format including the delimiter. - Little endian form Going from smallest time increment to largest makes sense, it is consistent in increment sizes ascending. At work we often use YYYY/MM/DD going from the largest to the smallest, that way there is even consistancy in the hours and minutes in decreasing in increment. - Big endian form.
Confusing would be any of these examples as they are not ascending or descending. DD/YYYY/MM MM/DD/YYYY MM/YYYY/DD See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Little_endian_forms.2C_starting_with_the_day It doesn't mix any formats. The format and delimiter IS the standard. P.S. It's not German ordering. See the wikipedia article on the origins. Michael Wheatland On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Christian Lohmaier <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not the wrong date, it just uses a bad/confusing format > (DD/MM/YYYY) so it mixes german/european ordering with US/american > delimiter. Today it should b e clear, as not it defaults to 13/11/2011 > - and there is no month number 13 :-) -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
