- From: <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:02:11 +0000
- To: "tina@greytower.net" <tina@greytower.net>
- Cc: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Please consider using the more humane dd-mm-yyyy format; or the even mm-dd-yyyy is occasionally used, so both it and dd-mm-yyyy are useless without good locale data. > more human "dd monthname year" one. Yes, I did say that I would *only* use 8601 in such a (human-targetted, as opposed to human-readable but machine-targetted) context if I was forced to use a short form, and I didn't have reliable locale data on the user. > Mostly because it is hopelessly unintuitive, unlogical, and gives us[**] > headaches. How can you say it's unintuitive. Arguably it's more intuitive to dd-mm-yyyy, since yyyy-mm-dd works the same way as decimal numbers (bigger denominations to the left). The Japanese find it perfectly intuitive because they were used to yyyy/mm/dd for Gregorian dates and they've now largely adopted 8601 for day-to-day use. The Americans even find mm/dd/yyyy intuitive!
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