On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:01:41PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 01/04/11 20:17, Lisi wrote:
On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2011-04-01, Freeman<hewho7@gmail.com> wrote:
04/01/11 !
What does the 4th of January have to do with it??!!!!
Perhaps on an international list we should say the month names as Liam has
here. Otherwise one is playing guessing games to work out the upbringing of
any writer who uses an ambiguous form for the date. In this case the context
made guessing easy, but that is rarely the case.
The North American date format wasn't that hard to work out - though I
suspect Liam is taking the p1ss (2 weeks late?).
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.