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Hi!
On 11/9/06, Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 November 2006 00:01, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > Or iso if numbers only, year in four digit format - remember 2000? That's
> > what standards are good for, after all.
>
> No, because then you're back to confusion again. People default to their own
> local way of writing dates if you use numbers. If you do, you'd have to point
> out explicitly every time that "this date is in ISO format", and in the end

(Getting far away to OT land here...)
I agree with Carlos. ISO format is a standard, so IMO you do not have
to state that the date is according to the standard, rather the other
way around: "this date is no by the standard." :-)

But I do get what you are saying. Except that I believe you are wrong.
If we were to agree that the standard virtually anything else, then it
would be confusing. All "confusing" date that are used seem to start
with either month or day - and you never know which. Or if the year is
expressed with only 2 numbers, then ... well that should not be done
anyways. The ISO format, 2006-11-09, differs clearly from all other
common formats (starts with full year, doesn't use dot or slash) and
therefore doesn't cause confusions. I have never seen a format that
looks like ISO, but has day and month swapped around...
Of course, I might be wrong as I do not know *all* the used date
formats. So you are welcome to prove me wrong. I do not mind.

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HG.