From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: date format (was: Re: Confusing language...)
Date: 1999/11/25
Date: 1999-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yecln7mqr8f.fsf@king.cts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.10.9911181636120.829-100000@lexis.di.fct.unl.pt
Mario Amado Alves <maa@di.fct.unl.pt> writes:
> There *is* a standard for *readable* time values, associated with HTML an
> alike, cf. w3.org.
I'm not sure this is what you're referring to, but the international
standard date notation is defined by ISO 8601.
The format is YYYY-MM-DD; for example, today is 1999-11-25. It's
unambiguous (unlike MM/DD/YY, or is it DD/MM/YY?), it's
language-independent, it's immune to Y2K problems, and it sorts
easily.
See <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html> for a good summary,
and <http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf> for the standard itself.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst>
"Oh my gosh! You are SO ahead of your time!" -- anon.
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1999-11-18 0:00 ` date format (was: Re: Confusing language...) Mario Amado Alves
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