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Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by Mattias J <mj...@expertsystem.se> on 2005/04/28 14:06:32 UTC
Re: [Jakarta-commons Wiki] Update of "BeanUtils/FAQ" by
SimonKitching
At 2005-04-28 13:53, you wrote:
>Simply because different regions of the world use different date layouts.
>There isn't any date format that is a reasonable built-in default.
I don't agree. yyyy-mm-dd is the ISO (8601) standard.
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html
It is used, among others, in the XML Schema date type and for database
representation.
> * USA: mm-dd-yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy
> * Europe/Pacific: dd-mm-yyyy
(In Sweden, which is part of Europe for those who don't know, we rarely use
dd-mm-yyyy)
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