> shows a structure of that date/string. E. g. Date/Time Formats of > RFC2616, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", ( > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt ), section 3.3. In terms of the ISO 8601 date format, you are objecting at the wrong time and in the wrong place. The right time was the mid-1980s, and the right place was your national standards body, would would have been a member of ISO. HTTP dates originate from formats that were designed mainly for American use, and with the idea that they would be directly seen by human recipients of email. A final point, is that one of the reasons for the yyyy-mm-dd format is that it is not ambiguous, as no coutry uses yyyy-dd-mm.Received on Friday, 29 November 2002 01:24:48 GMT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 6 April 2009 12:59:18 GMT