YAO Jiankang <yaojk@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > "HUANG, JERRY (ATTLABS)" <zh1424@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >What I am not so sure about is the sweeping statement that Americans > >would likely have difficulties with the 'yyyy-mm-dd' format. I walked > >around the office and polled seven of my co-workers who happen to be > >around (all engineers by trade, five 'natives'), all seven (eight > >including me) _know_ what it means. > > Good test. but you tested it only in your office which, I think , is located in USA. > So the conclusion derived from your office test may apply only to most offices in USA. > > Have you tested it in U.K., France, ASIA countries such as Japan, > China of different culture and background? He was specifically reacting to the statement that *Americans* would be more likely to have difficulties with this format. I found that claim strange myself, since I live in the US and I've never met anyone who has difficulties with that format. [ I believe that China uses YYYY-MM-DD anyway, and Wikipedia agrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country#Greater_China ] "HUANG, JERRY (ATTLABS)" <zh1424@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Perhaps this really is a non-issue after all? That's about what I said in my other email on this thread: Other than the email that started this thread, which mentioned a single individual who found 2010-01-02 ambiguous, I have *NEVER* heard of anyone finding that format ambiguous. As I said in that email, I think we'd need some evidence that there's an actual problem before it'd be worth discussion a solution. As far as I can tell, there's no such evidence, and no problem here. -- Cos _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf