std.date proposal

[Stewart Gordon]

Fredrik Olsson wrote:
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> Spelling corrected, I bet there is more, way more...

Like your use of "allot" in the next sentence.

> "M/D/Y" will stay I think, it is the US way, ambiguous or not, and there 
> is allot of code/people out there making this assumption. If I could 
> choose myself we would all go ISO :).

And there are probably at least as many people in the world who expect 
dates to be D/M/Y.  People's assumptions will differ even further on 
what century a two-digit year is in - do you have a policy on this?

> Perhaps a mode flag should be added, to prefer YMD, DMY or MDY whenever 
> an ambiguity exists?
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I guess so.  But it depends on how you define ambiguous or not.  For 
example, date notation in MS Access confused me the other day until I 
got my head around how #13/5/06# is interpreted as 13 March and 
#12/5/06# as 5 December.

Stewart.

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