- From: Lois Wakeman <lois@lois.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:50:25 -0000
- To: "WAI list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Jon, Who says, in answer to "What's the date today?", "Oh, its 2003, December 5th" ? I think that is a more valid analogy than the format of decimal numbers. (I'd never think of it when trying to decipher a date, but I am not a programmer nor a mathematician.) *If* there are no language constraints, then spelling the month out is unambiguous whatever format (conventional US, EU, JP) you choose. (I realise that is a big if) And as Tina says, no Europeans I know use the ISO standard in real life, which is presumably what we were originally discussing in the context of form entries. Lois Wakeman ------------------------------------------------------ http://lois.co.uk http://siteusability.com http://communicationarts.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------
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