- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 17:52:31 +0200 (MET)
- To: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>, www-international@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
On Oct 21, 5:22pm, Peter Flynn wrote: > >So for dates on the web, > >always use something like February 3, 2004. > > That's an American local form. So? It's also entirely unambiguous, wheras the other popular American form 2/3/2004 is difficult to tell from the popular European form 3/2/2004 and there is no difficulty in interpreting the European local form 3 February 2004. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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