- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:35:22 -0400
- To: www-qa@w3.org
This is a draft Open for comments for future publications http://www.w3.org/2001/06tips/ ************************ Title: Use international date format There are potential usability problems when you do not use international date format. Let say, that you have a Web page with a date information expressed like that: 02/04/03 Do you mean: 2nd of April 2003 (European style) 4th of February 2003 (USA style) 3rd of April 2002 How do you know which system is used on the website your visitor is looking at? Is the person who will read your website will be able to guess what format date you are using. * Good practice To avoid this confusion, it exist a international format defined by ISO. CCYY-MM-DD where CC is the century YY is the year MM is the month 01 (January) to 12 (December) DD is the day 01 to 31 So the date we have written before is now expressed as: 2002-04-03 Further Reading: * Date and Time Formats http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime * ISO 8601:2000 International Date Format. http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=26780&ICS1=1&ICS2=140&ICS3= 30 * Everything on Calendar systems http://www.calendarzone.com/ -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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