On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:41:17PM -0400, Dimi Paun wrote: > > it doesn't use the god aweful European standard of DD/MM/YY and uses > > the much more reasonable US standard of MM/DD/YY."spaleta > > Wow, just curious why would MM/DD/YY be "reasonable"?!? > It's completely non-uniform, I guess the only thing going > for it is the fact that it makes some sense in accounting, > but that is rather obscure reason to prefer it... :) Accounting people, and indeed anyone working with data sets normally prefer YYYY-MM-DD so it sorts nicely and is unambiguous. For any kind of international consumption where the date isn't in a form processed by the local locale setting YYYY-MM-DD is also probably the safest. Alan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
