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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: date format (was: Re: Confusing language...)
Date: 1999/11/25
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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>
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