Re: Human representation of dates, opinions

Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:26:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Oh, yeah, if I were to guess at the form that the average US English
>> speaker would prefer, it would probably be something like:
>>
>> 5/31/2002 5:07:29pm

> Yes, that's great! It was always great fun to guess whether it is
> d/m/y or m/d/y. Some really wired minds use even y/m/d.

> NO. Please stop this madness _now_ and use something like
> "yyyy-mm-dd hh:MM:ss" which everyone understands and where no one
> needs to guess.

You seem to have misunderstood my point, which was certainly not to
advocate an incredibly broken date format like that one.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra_at_stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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