Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Wireless Extension update | Date | 14 Oct 2001 17:07:53 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110142252270.6433-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX> By author: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.cx> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > DD.MM.YYYY (European) > MM/DD/YYYY (American) > YYYY-MM-DD (Japanese) > > ...with the punctuation character specifying the one in use. I note that > the dates as originally quoted above are clearly consistant with this > standard, so see no problem myself. > > Personally, I prefer to use the DD-MMM-YYYY format myself, where MMM in > the three-letter English abbreviation for the month in question, and > there is thus no room for misreading it as something else. >
YYYY-MM-DD is also unambiguous, and has the nice properties of being (a) sortable and (b) language-independent.
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