| Date formatting on articles is US [message #13435] |
Fri, 02 December 2005 05:39  |
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Just a minor niggle - I find it hard to read a date listed as
"08‑11‑2005". In the UK that would be in August, but in the US
it's in November. Could the date format be changed to be ISO8601-like such
as 2005-11-08 to remove ambiguity. Obvioulsy it would be rather cool to
use the user's formatting, but I suspect ISO8601 would be easier.
David Bowen
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| Re: Date formatting on articles is US [message #13739 is a reply to message #13579] |
Mon, 05 December 2005 14:33  |
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Originally posted by: alex_blewitt.yahoo.com
+1 for the yyyy-mm-dd format. It's also the only one where lexicographic sorting is the same as date sorting. Lastly, this format is different from both American and European-style dates (as long as you don't use 2 digits for the year :-) so the distinctions should be more noticeable.
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| Re: Date formatting on articles is US [message #566657 is a reply to message #13435] |
Fri, 02 December 2005 14:21 |
 Eclipse Webmaster
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Registered: July 2009 |
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+1
I've always been a fan of yyyy-mm-dd myself, mostly because of SQL...
David Bowen wrote:
> Just a minor niggle - I find it hard to read a date listed as
> "08‑11‑2005". In the UK that would be in August, but in the
> US it's in November. Could the date format be changed to be ISO8601-like
> such as 2005-11-08 to remove ambiguity. Obvioulsy it would be rather
> cool to use the user's formatting, but I suspect ISO8601 would be easier.
>
> David Bowen
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| Re: Date formatting on articles is US [message #566912 is a reply to message #13579] |
Mon, 05 December 2005 14:33 |
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+1 for the yyyy-mm-dd format. It's also the only one where lexicographic sorting is the same as date sorting. Lastly, this format is different from both American and European-style dates (as long as you don't use 2 digits for the year :-) so the distinctions should be more noticeable.
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