Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Date formats
Author: michael j lawley Posted: 1/5/1999; 8:05:17 AM Topic: 1999's first test message Msg #: 1833 (In response to 1823) Prev/Next: 1832 / 1834
But if you wish to retain all-digit dates (avoiding an English-centric world view), then the convention is 1999/1/4 i.e. Year/Month/Day which, for most practical purposes (any year after 31AD), is unambiguous.It's also usually best to use UTC for times (4:22:28 PM means little to me since I'm in Brisbane) and optionally also provide a "local" time (whatever that means on the Web). At the very least a timezone should be given (as /- N rather than PST/EST/... which is also ambiguous).
Cheers, michael
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