ISO 8601, the metric of date format
Different countries have different convention of writing date. Some write in m/d/y order and some write in d/m/y order and so on. One thing to do for localization is to show date in the right format...
I say ____ the convention. Write it in ISO 8601 format. That is in the YYYY-MM-DD format. No more confusion of whether the day or month come first. And when you sort it, it comes out in chronological order. ISO 8601 is the metric of date format.
I say ____ the convention. Write it in ISO 8601 format. That is in the YYYY-MM-DD format. No more confusion of whether the day or month come first. And when you sort it, it comes out in chronological order. ISO 8601 is the metric of date format.
posted by Tung Wai Yip @ 8:53 AM
2 Comments:
At 4:31 PM,
James Gray said…
I agree, however, according to RFC 2616 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html)
HTTP should use the format
Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT
What a pain... :( Should be easy to parse in python though. At least you can pick your own format everywhere else.
At 1:10 PM,
Tung Wai Yip said…
IETF codifies some of the most English centric protocol for us. That date is one of its silly design. Often time I want to drop in an arbitrary date like 2000-01-01 for testing. Now I have the challenge of finding out what day of week 2000-01-01 is?!
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