(from digest)
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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