- From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:22:53 +0200
- To: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>, www-international@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
Chris Lilley writes: > On Oct 21, 5:22pm, Peter Flynn wrote: > > > >So for dates on the web, > > >always use something like February 3, 2004. > > > > That's an American local form. > > So? It's also entirely unambiguous, wheras the other popular American form > > 2/3/2004 > > is difficult to tell from the popular European form > > 3/2/2004 > > and there is no difficulty in interpreting the European local form > > 3 February 2004. Why not "3. februar 2004" as it would have been written in correct Danish? :-) Well, we cannot have English/US names as the standard of the internet. That's why we need 2004-02-03. Keld
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