- From: Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw@view.net.au>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 06:48:53 +1030 (CST)
- To: Christian Rębild <craebild@parknet.dk>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Received on Saturday, 18 February 2006 20:19:27 UTC
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Rębild wrote: > Most or all european countries use the date format DD-MM-YYYY, so that might And China (post office at least) and Australia and ... > be why the Amaya developers (and the developers of CVS) chose that format. > Some of the Amaya developers are from europe, after all. The DD-MM-YYYY format is only used in North America IIUC. Even in that region the military conforms to international usage. The big advantage of YYYY-MM-DD is that it eliminates this confusion. North American civilians keep their MM-DD order and the rest of us keep a logical progression of units.
Received on Saturday, 18 February 2006 20:19:27 UTC