On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:05, Felix Miata wrote:
On 06/11/01 14:42 (GMT+0100) Anders Johansson apparently typed:
ps. date formats are icky. Does that mean December 11 or November 12? In future, please write it out, it's not even a common format in the English speaking world, let alone the rest of the world, so on a list like this, confusion is dominant
Writing out isn't necessary if you use the ISO 8601 format, which is like writing ordinary numbers, with most significant digits to the left. 2005.11.12
This is actually the normal format in Sweden, so I'm quite used to that. But it completely misses the point, which is that people have different standards in their everyday lives. Unless you write it out, you will cause confusion, this is a simple fact which cannot be solved by an ISO standard