RE: Unambiguous dates (was: American English to British English)

[KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

Yeah, I know.  

(About the ISO thing)

Even before ISO became a thousand pound gorilla 
(er, sorry, I mean 454kg gorilla), that format was 
widely used, and often referred-to as the "metric taper".
That is, the order of units tapered from largest unit 
to smallest unit:

[YY]YY-MM-DD-hh:mm:ss



>-----Original Message-----
>From: edunn -at- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com
>/kevin wrote:
>
>>>Except where forced to comply by idiot forms, and
>>>until further notice (or year 2013, whichever comes
>>>first) I intend to write dates as yyyy/mm/dd.
>>>
>>>Could anybody possibly be confused by that? Brits?
>>>Americans? (Certainly not Canadians...)
>
>What you propose isn't just tongue in cheek. And even in 2013 
>you shouldn't be
>reverting to the other format.
>Why? The current ISO standard for date formatting is YYYYMMDD 
>or YYMMDD.
>
>Besides being unambiguous, computers sort it correctly into 
>chronological order
>(but not in YYMMDD format).
>Check at:
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
>(this web address was previously posted to TECHWR-L by 
>Christopher Knight)

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