From: Paul Hughes (planetp@aci.net)
Date: Sun Nov 08 1998 - 13:11:55 MST
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> I could waste resources arguing with people that it is a bad idea to
> write today's date as 08.11.98, 08/11/98, or 11/08/98. Or I can simply
> go ahead and use 1998-11-08.
> "What's that peculiar way you write the date?"
> "It's the ISO world standard, it's international, logical, and it's not
> ambiguous since there is no competing notation that reverses month
> and day."
> "Oh."
> Idea planted. Repetition will re-inforce it.
Please do, after all it seems like everywhere else (on the net) I'm asked to
enter mm-dd-yyyy. If we really want to change the reinforcement we need to
e-mail those programmers who are creating applications not using the ISO
standard.
Paul
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