- From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 21:09:29 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
chaals@yandex-team.ru composed on 2014-11-08 01:30 (UTC+0100): > Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo composed: >> I think that the most "accesible" is the international format: yyyy/mm/dd, >> for example: 2014/11/07 >> This can be understood by any person in any language. >> And for the hours the 24 hours format: 23:00 > This is fine for *most of the world*. > Unfortunately Americans are especially unlikely to understand either of these formats. Most "Americans" do know a normal day is comprised of 24 hours. Those who use computers should be assumed to be smart enough to look up something they see on the internet but don't understand. Those who haven't already been exposed to 24 hours clocks in schools or elsewhere are a dying breed. It's high time everybody, American or not, learned the substance of iso 8601, embracing logical and readily sortable order in date and time strings, and stopped perpetuating illogical little and mixed-endian date and time confusion escaping their own sub-global existence. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
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