(from digest) > > ISO not withstanding, its still confusing if only because other > cultures use yyddmm. If the IETF website used something like ISO-2010-01-02 > maybe. Actually, for culturally-formatted date strings, cultures that prefer day-month order typically put the year at the trailing end. It turns out that cultures that put the year first in their local date format always use month-day order afterwards. Unicode's Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project lists several hundred locales, which you can browse for both the sheer diversity of forms (separators, abbreviations, calendars, and such) within the relative homogeneity of overall patterns (just three: mdy, dmy, and ymd). See: http://www.unicode.org/cldr > > This format is less confusing: 02jan2010 > There are several benefits to using ISO 8601 (well, actually RFC 3339) which have already been reported on this thread, so I won't bludgeon the topic further. However, for those interested some useful links appear on here: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format Regards, Addison Addison Phillips Chair -- W3C Internationalization WG Internationalization is not a feature. It is an architecture. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf