std.date proposal

[Thomas Kuehne]

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John C schrieb am 2006-03-29:
>>> 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
>>
>> Accepted internationally?
>
> According to the linked article. But I should have used quotation marks...

The article uses a fussy meaning for "D/M/Y" - it includes
"D.M.Y", "D.M.YYYY", "D. M. Y"  and "D/M-Y" and perhaps a few more
that weren't stated in the list explicitly

e.g.: Strictly speaking 01/02/03 isn't considered a date in Germany,
but 01.02.03 and 01.02.2003 are.

The ones rendering the "DD/MM/YY" format totaly unusable are often the US with
"MM/DD/YY". Whenever there is a slight chance that an US entity was
involved: check for non-metric length, weight and odd dates :(

Thomas


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