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AW: [Maybe Spam] Re: Date processing should be more flexible
I thought ISO is using a dash as seperator (ISO8601), e.g. 2005-07-04
Which makes it even more obvious, that is a ISO date, than using "/" as a seperator, which is primarly used for US date-format.
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Betreff: [Maybe Spam] Re: Date processing should be more flexible
Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>On 7/4/05, McKenna, Simon (RGH) <Si...@rgh.sa.gov.au> wrote:
>
>
>>-> What's meant with 2005/05/07 - July 5th or May 7th?
>>
>>yyyy/mm/dd
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>
>That's not the natural order for people in the US (as I understand it).
>
Yes, but it's the ISO standard date format, hence it should be
understood by everyone.
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Re: Date processing should be more flexible
Posted by Saulius Grazulis <gr...@akl.lt>.
On Monday 04 July 2005 13:23, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> The best date format, imo, is YYYYMMDD. i.e. today is 20040704.
Oh no, please! This is completely human-unreadable. Some separators are needed
for readability, and to distinguish dates from just numbers.
Dashes (2005-07-04) are close to ideal: no confusion, standard (ISO), already
widely in use.
Dots could be used as well (2005.07.04) but these are not ISO.
Slashes have contradictory meanings (even if we spell out a year in full --
what is 02/03/2005? ;), so they are not good.
If svn accepts 20040704 as a shortcut, nobody will probably object, I would be
very upset if this were the only format svn understands (in the same way I am
upset with Unix 'date'...)
> When
> used as a file prefix it has the advantage of automagically sorting your
> files by date.
Format with dashes has the same property.
>
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Re: AW: [Maybe Spam] Re: Date processing should be more flexible
Posted by "Martin A. Brooks" <ma...@hinterlands.org>.
Miha Vitorovic wrote:
> I wouldn't go as far as saying that "most countries" in Europe use slashes
> for date separation.
The best date format, imo, is YYYYMMDD. i.e. today is 20040704. When
used as a file prefix it has the advantage of automagically sorting your
files by date.
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Re: AW: [Maybe Spam] Re: Date processing should be more flexible
Posted by Miha Vitorovic <mv...@nil.si>.
Olivier Sannier <ob...@free.fr> wrote on 04.07.2005 11:52:53:
> Lammel Roland wrote:
>
> >I thought ISO is using a dash as seperator (ISO8601), e.g. 2005-07-04
> >
> >Which makes it even more obvious, that is a ISO date, than using
> "/" as a seperator, which is primarly used for US date-format.
> >
> >+rl
> >
> Yes, that's right, but most countries in Europe use the "/" as a
> separator, but the dd/mm/yyyy format.
I wanted to stay out of it, but...
I wouldn't go as far as saying that "most countries" in Europe use slashes
for date separation.
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Re: AW: [Maybe Spam] Re: Date processing should be more flexible
Posted by Olivier Sannier <ob...@free.fr>.
Lammel Roland wrote:
>I thought ISO is using a dash as seperator (ISO8601), e.g. 2005-07-04
>
>Which makes it even more obvious, that is a ISO date, than using "/" as a seperator, which is primarly used for US date-format.
>
>+rl
>
Yes, that's right, but most countries in Europe use the "/" as a
separator, but the dd/mm/yyyy format.
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