- From: Cyril <cyril2@mail.ru>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:42:19 +0300
- To: www-html@w3.org
- Cc: "Mikko Rantalainen" <mira@cc.jyu.fi>
Dear Sirs, dear Mikko, [In http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002Nov/0156.html , Mikko wrote:] -------------------------------- > For example, ISO 8601 has been official date format in China since > 1994 and IIRC there're pretty many people in China. ---------------------------------------------- So what is the IIRC; could you explain? Could you, please, explain what does IIRC mean or stand for? [In http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002Nov/0156.html , Mikko wrote:] -------------------------------- > I'd be fine if ISO 8601 defined date format as DDMMYYYY but that's > because official format is DD.MM.YYYY where I live. ---------------------------------------------- By a strange twist of fate, where I live, similar but worse date format also had been pushed through. (I evaluate it as worse because it had year like YY.) And all the time during that format was being pushed I preferred *.MMM.* OR *.MMMM.* date formats i. e. formats where a month represented only by letters because among other reasons, a month represented by a word unambiguously determines a string comprising the month-word as a Gregorian calendar's date and, in addition, it clear shows a structure of that date/string. E. g. Date/Time Formats of RFC2616, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", ( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt ), section 3.3. Regards, Cyril, Esq.
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