- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 19:01:00 +0200 (MET)
- To: w3-int-list@faerber.muc.de (Claus André Färber), www-international@w3.org
Received on Friday, 24 October 1997 13:01:27 UTC
On Oct 23, 1:45pm, Claus André Färber wrote: > So what if I only spoke languages in which the month names are so > distinct from the English ones that the character sequence "February" > would have no meaning to me at all? Then you wouldn't understand the rest of the text either, so you would likely skip the entire document. >If you want a date format which is > understood by as many people as possible, you have to use "2004-02-03". Which will, as stated before, be subject to different interpretations by different people. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
Received on Friday, 24 October 1997 13:01:27 UTC