I'm American from Brazil we always use dd/mm/yyyy :-)
So, that's how Brazilians refer to themselves and each other: "I'm an American"? And even if so (which I very much doubt), spelled that way as in American [sic] English? Yeah, sure. (If you want to call yourselves "Americanos" or however it would be spelt in Brazilian Portuguese, be my guest.)
Best I can see, whenever others object to [U.S.] Americans calling themselves Americans (who really are the only folks who use that term for themselves, spelt as in English), it's purely because they want to stick it to Americans.
Michael McNeil
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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