--On Saturday, March 13, 2010 15:21 -0500 "Phillips, Addison" <addison@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (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 Addison, While it doesn't change the conclusion, I've actually see many uses of ydm in the wild. I haven't taken the time to try to find out, but I've assumed that was the reason why the current version of ISO 8601 moved to "one delimiter and it is hyphen" from the permissiveness about delimiter choices in its predecessors. john _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf