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<li><em>To</em>: David Merrill <<A HREF="mailto:dmerrill@lupercalia.net">dmerrill@lupercalia.net</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: date formats</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Stein Gjoen <<A HREF="mailto:sgjoen@mail.nyx.net">sgjoen@mail.nyx.net</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 09:10:42 +0100</li>
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David Merrill wrote:
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> {Jan, Feb, etc} regardless of the language doesn't make sense. I like
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> YYYY-MM-DD because 1) it is language-independent, 2) it follows the
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> ISO standard 3) it is easily parsed 4) it is unambiguous.
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> In support of 4):
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> AFAIK, nobody uses YYYY-MM-DD. The ambiguous dates are those where the
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> year falls last (US usage is MM-DD-YYYY while English (and others) is
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> DD-MM-YYYY).
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Trivia: In Japan they use YYYY-MM-DD, often with kanji for year, month
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and day. Inother countries people use "/" rather than "-" to separate
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the fields. Al in all it is a complete mess.
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Also I believe there is a GNU package that deals with most date formats
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in use and also tries to some extent guess format of a given string.
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<A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.0.6/html_chapter/libc_17.html">http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.0.6/html_chapter/libc_17.html</A>
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"This chapter describes functions for manipulating dates and times,
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including functions for determining what the current time is and
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conversion between different time representations. "
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Regards,
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Stein Gjoen
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<li><strong><a name="04612" href="msg04612.html">RE: date formats</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> "Craig M. Buchek" <cbuchek@linuxgruven.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="04593" href="msg04593.html">date formats</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Merrill <dmerrill@lupercalia.net></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="04594" href="msg04594.html">Re: date formats</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> "Greg Ferguson" <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="04595" href="msg04595.html">Re: date formats</a></strong>
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