- From: Cheryl D. Wise <cdwise@wiserways.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 08:34:39 -0600
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
And being in the US I would use MM-DD-YYYY. That's where the problem comes in but in reality as long as it is clearly stated which format you want/need people to use it doesn't really matter because intuitive is only good for local users not only because of the different date structure order but also because of the different separators people use. I then to use - but my bank requires /, neither is wrong but can mess up some validators. It does on my bank site and drives me nuts when I get an error and have to go back and change it as I have to do at least half of the time. Same thing about someone's earlier comment on requiring the + on phone numbers. In the US we don't use + so for many, if not most people it wouldn't register what they are being asked to provide. Forms are difficult unless you know for a fact that you will only get visitors from a limited geographic area. I have friends in New Zealand and Singapore who complain that the most commonly used contact and order forms will not accept their addresses because they don't allow enough lines or require items such as county or state that aren't used in their countries. Cheryl D. Wise Certified Professional Web Developer MS-MVP-FrontPage www.wiserways.com mailto: cdwise@wiserways.com 713.353.0139 Office -----Original Message----- From: tina@greytower.net Not, but the format "xx monthname year-with-four-digits" work in all contexts; written - of course - fully and in the same natural language as the document itself. If you then want to use the ISO format internally, fine. However, if you MUST use an abbreviated, locale-dependent, format towards the end user, then I still suggest dd-mm-yyyy - and, of course, always include that, as the OP had done. <label for="date">Date (in dd-mm-yyyy format)</label> <input type="text" name="date" id="date" size="16"> would be my suggestion. -- - Tina Holmboe Greytower Technologies tina@greytower.net http://www.greytower.net/ [+46] 0708 557 905
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