- From: Christian Rębild <craebild@parknet.dk>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:22:47 +0100
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
On 18-02-2006 03:23, Kade Hansson wrote: > > Lars Bruzelius wrote: > >> 17-02-2006 which is incorrect. In this case Amaya should pick up the >> preferred format from the system preferences, i.e. in this case >> yyyy-mm-dd. Why the Amaya team chose the dd-mm-yyyy format for the >> non-ISO 8601 format is beyond me. > > I believe it is because CVS (a commonly used version control system) > uses this format for its date stamps. > > The ISO format feature was added because (naturally) some people don't > use CVS, and they wanted a more "useful" format. (I would argue that > both ways are equally useful, it's just that Americans and the > Japanese prefer to mix things up. Their prerogative, I suppose.) > > Archer > > End. > > > I don't know about the japanese, but the common US date format is MM-DD-YYYY, which does not match either of the formats used by Amaya. Most or all european countries use the date format DD-MM-YYYY, so that might be why the Amaya developers (and the developers of CVS) chose that format. Some of the Amaya developers are from europe, after all. -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christian Rębild / Christian Raebild
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