On 2010-03-14 10:58, Scott Brim wrote:
These technical answers are all great "for use in Internet protocols"
[3339] but the scope of the question is web pages destined for humans to
read and understand ... and some humans don't understand them. You
could justify what's there now and ignore their problem, or (if your
goal is communication) you could figure out how to write dates in ways
that ordinary humans find unambiguous. I usually write something like
"2010 Jan 02". It's not sortable but it's understood even by non-IETFers.
In Russia, China, Arabic-writing countries, etc.?
I've preferred the 2010-03-14 format (with or without the hypens)
since 1977, when I found myself installing the 770517C release of
an operating system. OK, that abbreviation does incorporate the
Y2K bug, but when working in an industry generally befuddled by
the ambiguity between European and American date order, it's
without a doubt the best we can do for a globally understandable
format.
Brian
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