Re: date parsing on "bite-sized tasks" list

Hi,

In terms of date formats I would go with ISO standard

i.e. CCYY-MM-DD

everyone understands this. Well, ever programmer I know understands this.

I'm from the UK but am currently working in the US. I am dealing with groups
in both the UK and US. At the moment if I fill in any form I use the date
format 21-AUG-2001, to ensure that there is no confusion about the date.
Obviously you wouldn't want to use letters in a date format, so I would go
for CCYY-MM-DD. I would use this as the only permissible output format.

For input format's I would accept CCYY-MM-DD and if the date failed to meet
that format attempt to parse allowing such phrases as "yesterday", "-1",
etc. Of course these formats become language/locale dependent. This is
reasonably handy as scripts and the like can use CCYY-MM-DD and guarantee
the date handling to work and people can use relative time shortcuts.

Pete Fox

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