green wrote:
Aaron Toponce wrote at 2011-04-01 08:11 -0500:For international mailing lists, if you stick with ISO 8601, there should be no ambiguity in the date: 2011-04-01 or 20110401 is defined as April 1, 2011, or truncated as 11-04-01 or 110401. Standards. Who would have thought?Precisely. I'm in the US, but I always write dates like that.
"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. " (attributed to Andy Tanenbaum)
Who would have thought that there was only one in common use for date and time (even IETF bases date/time on an ISO8601 profile).
-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra