- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:12:34 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- CC: Andrea Vine <avine@eng.sun.com>, www-international@w3.org
Martin Duerst scripsit: > If I see a MM/DD/YY date format in an English text, I may get > confused (given my Swiss-German origin). So do anglophones, given that Anglophonia includes both mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy locales. It's just a lousy format, full stop (or period). For this reason, Reuters Health now publishes yyyy-mm-dd dates everywhere, because we can't predict what our English-speaking readers will understand by xx/xx/xx, and it seems silly to have two local versions of our stories simply for that purpose. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
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