Re: Date processing should be more flexible

Marcus Rohrmoser wrote:
> Olivier Sannier schrieb:
>
>> Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/4/05, McKenna, Simon (RGH) <Simon.McKenna@rgh.sa.gov.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> -> What's meant with 2005/05/07 - July 5th or May 7th?
>>>>
>>>> yyyy/mm/dd
>>>
>>>
>>> That's not the natural order for people in the US (as I understand it).
>>>
>> Yes, but it's the ISO standard date format, hence it should be
>> understood by everyone.
>
>
> No, the slashes aren't Iso as far as I understand
> http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html

The following is a quite comprehensive summary:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

The date separator is a '-', and using separators is optional.

Regards,
Simon Ward

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Received on Mon Jul 4 17:54:49 2005