RE: Unambiguous dates (was: American English to British English)

[edunn -at- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]

/kevin wrote:

>>Except where forced to comply by idiot forms, and
>>until further notice (or year 2013, whichever comes
>>first) I intend to write dates as yyyy/mm/dd.
>>
>>Could anybody possibly be confused by that? Brits?
>>Americans? (Certainly not Canadians...)

What you propose isn't just tongue in cheek. And even in 2013 you shouldn't be
reverting to the other format.
Why? The current ISO standard for date formatting is YYYYMMDD or YYMMDD.

Besides being unambiguous, computers sort it correctly into chronological order
(but not in YYMMDD format).
Check at:
 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
(this web address was previously posted to TECHWR-L by Christopher Knight)

Eric L. Dunn



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