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Pico pmwiki at ben-amotz.com
Mon Oct 9 13:50:33 CDT 2006


pmwiki at 911networks.com wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:26:14 -0500
> "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:47:36AM -0500, Ben Wilson wrote:
>>> Just being cheeky. I know this list, and PmWiki's customer
>>> base, is multinational.  So, I can adjust.
>>>
>>> But, while we're on it, why not just go with ISO so as not
>>> to confuse us Americans?[1] (2006-10-09) If we use ISO, then
>>> there won't be the issue between Americans/rest-of-the-world
>>> for dates. 
>> FWIW, all of PmWiki's date handling in markup and page names
>> will be using ISO-formatted dates.
> 
> What about dd-Mmm-yyyy: 08-Jan-2007? [My preferred format] Nobody
> ever confuses these dates. Will you be supporting these?
> 
> ISO formatted dates are still confusing for my users: is
> it? 01/08/07 or 07/01/08 or 01/08/07...
> 

Unless English isn't your language...

Also, its not as easy to order dates (as strings) when the month is not 
stated as a number.

But, other than those two objections...

Oh, and the ISO is the one that starts with the year as four digits: 
2006-10-09

Pico

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