I'm American from Brazil we always use dd/mm/yyyy :-)
Anyway, in a "computer context" I think that yyyy-mm-dd is a good design, because I'ts easier to sort and organize by a script in a cronological order.
As it may cause a lot of confusion, I assume that one way is to use a tag to identify date format use, like "GMT-3" when we write about time.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 03/17/2010 09:18 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:I think you're generalizing to some potentially non-existant superset of
> Absolutely. But Americans don't expect this kind of stuff to make
> sense, because they're used to having a different way of measuring
> everything, while in the rest of the world we're used to the metric
> system so we assume things make sense. So an American wouldn't
> necessarily consider yyyy-dd-mm inconceivable while people from
> elsewhere probably would and just assume yyyy-mm-dd.
a population that may or may not read internet drafts. I'm really not
sure that's relevant.
A group in my organization (based in the uk no less) was just hosed by a
windows api that represents months using their spelling and is therefore
locale dependant, I'd rather prefer rfc-3339, somehow rather than
worrying that the report for the month of февраль din't get generated.
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