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Wierd Dates?
ISO 8601 / RFC 3339
Started by Giz! · 8 posts · 48 views · this thread in the Internet Archive
Giz!12 Feb 2004, 18:45 02.03.2004 dates are ambiguous around the world. Is it dd.mm.yyyy? or mm.dd.yyyy?
Why not try YYYY-MM-DD as in the RFC 3339 recomendations for internet usage. This works so well, as no-one uses yyyy-dd-mm anywhere at all.
Today will always be 2004-02-12.
Why not try it on your website for a while?knode17 Feb 2004, 02:32 Sounds like a good idea. I always get confused by this.
I have seen those sort of dates on some other sites, without realising that they were already some sort of standard.Trancefuzion17 Feb 2004, 17:22 MM-DD-YYYY is North America, DD-MM-YYYY is Europe ;)Giz!18 Feb 2004, 21:56 Trancefuzion wrote: MM-DD-YYYY is North America, DD-MM-YYYY is Europe ;)
It used to be so, but the US has ANSI X3.30, and Europe has EN 28601 which both use YYYY-MM-DD now.
Yeah, true!
Dates like 02/03/2004 have two meanings on opposite sites of the Atlantic.
However, 2004-03-02 is always intended to be 2004-Mar-02. :cheesburger:R3v0Lu7iOn 1920 Feb 2004, 22:31 i do and will always write dd/mm/yyyyAlle1 Mar 2004, 07:41 As the majority of the ppl who receive our news are from us the dateformat for now will stay @ dd/mm/yyyy - Simple democracy for now :)Trancefuzion1 Mar 2004, 09:28 Alle wrote: As the majority of the ppl who receive our news are from us the dateformat for now will stay @ dd/mm/yyyy - Simple democracy for now :)
Ah so you're gonna force the European format on the Americans eh? lol
Dang... It always throws me for a loop because I've always been used to MM/DD/YYYYGuest1 Mar 2004, 20:41