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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org">ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: date formats</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: David Merrill <<A HREF="mailto:dmerrill@lupercalia.net">dmerrill@lupercalia.net</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:27:17 -0500</li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: <<a href="msg04612.html">NLEDLEBJMAFNKPMOMPDECELBCAAA.cbuchek@linuxgruven.com</a>>; from cbuchek@linuxgruven.com on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:24:10AM -0600</li>
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:24:10AM -0600, Craig M. Buchek wrote:
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> Stein Gjoen wrote:
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> > David Merrill wrote:
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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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> Actually, I think he meant that YYYY-MM-DD won't confuse anyone, because
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> nobody uses YYYY-DD-MM. The separator shouldn't confuse anybody either -- I
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> personally prefer a period. Think about someone looking at 2000/10/12. Is
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> it October 12 or December 10? Us dumb Americans will assume that it is in
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> MM-DD format, just like we are used to. October 12. Everyone else will be
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> smart enough to figure out that since it starts with the year, the next
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> field will be the month, because why would you put the day next to the year?
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> October 12. So there is no mess with YYYY-MM-DD.
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Ummmm... Yes. This must be my week for ID10T-BKAC errors :-o.
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> Another nice thing about YYYY-MM-DD format is that it is sortable with
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> normal ASCII sorting. No parsing required.
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Yes, Good point. I find that when coding it is the easiest format to
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work with in lots of ways.
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--
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Dr. David C. Merrill <A HREF="http://www.lupercalia.net">http://www.lupercalia.net</A>
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Linux Documentation Project dmerrill@lupercalia.net
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Collection Editor & Coordinator <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org">http://www.linuxdoc.org</A>
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Finger me for my public key
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Juall's Law on Nice Guys:
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Sometimes they don't even get a chance to start!
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<li><strong><a name="04609" href="msg04609.html">Re: date formats</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Stein Gjoen <sgjoen@mail.nyx.net></li></ul></li>
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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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