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Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-13 14:22:05
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ISO not withstanding, its still confusing if only because other
cultures use yyddmm.  If the IETF website used something like  ISO-2010-01-02
maybe.

Actually, for culturally-formatted date strings, cultures that prefer day-month 
order typically put the year at the trailing end. It turns out that cultures 
that put the year first in their local date format always use month-day order 
afterwards.

Unicode's Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project lists several hundred 
locales, which you can browse for both the sheer diversity of forms 
(separators, abbreviations, calendars, and such) within the relative 
homogeneity of overall patterns (just three: mdy, dmy, and ymd). See:

   http://www.unicode.org/cldr 


This format is less confusing:  02jan2010


There are several benefits to using ISO 8601 (well, actually RFC 3339) which 
have already been reported on this thread, so I won't bludgeon the topic 
further. However, for those interested some useful links appear on here:

   http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date
   http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format 

Regards,

Addison

Addison Phillips
Chair -- W3C Internationalization WG

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.



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