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feldon34 · 06-06-2005, 08:58 AM

According to International Standards Organization (ISO) standard 8601, the international standard date notation is:
YYYY-MM-DD.

Originally posted by AKcrab:

Hmm.. When writing out a date, do international folks not use "November 11, 2005"?

Nope.

They use 11 November, 2005 in Britain.

Originally posted by Jim Sachs:

I don't know that you could call it "our" way. In the military, that date would be 11 NOV 2005, which eliminates all guesswork.

Alas computers have no clue how to sort dates written like that and have to convert it back to an internal format.

06-06-2005, 08:58 AM	#11
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,938	According to International Standards Organization (ISO) standard 8601, the international standard date notation is: YYYY-MM-DD. Originally posted by AKcrab: Hmm.. When writing out a date, do international folks not use "November 11, 2005"? Nope. They use 11 November, 2005 in Britain. Originally posted by Jim Sachs: I don't know that you could call it "our" way. In the military, that date would be 11 NOV 2005, which eliminates all guesswork. Alas computers have no clue how to sort dates written like that and have to convert it back to an internal format. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman