std.date proposal

[John C]

> "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 :).

Who are these people expecting dates to appear in US format, I wonder?

A date library that has no notion of locales has no business making any 
region-specific assumptions and should just implement ISO8601. After all, 
that's what it's for.

If you must support a common date format, it should be D/M/Y, which is used 
by the vast majority of countries and accepted internationally. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date