On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 06:11:31PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >"2004/01/04" is clear > > Not to me; it could be April 1st, or January 4th. Nobody actually uses YYYY/DD/MM to my knowledge (thank $DEITY), which is one of the reasons that this is the ISO date format (possibly with "-" substituted for "/"). -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]