Re: HELP: Ways of shortening a written date?
- From: Leslie Danks <leslie.danks@xxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:18:48 +0100
R H Draney wrote:
Leslie Danks filted:
Adam Funk wrote:
On 2008-12-11, Garrett Wollman wrote:
My gut instinct says, in good ISO 8601 style:
(5) 2008-09-18
That format also has the advantage of sorting correctly as a string.
But the disadvantage of possibly being misunderstood if the date is
earlier than the thirteenth of the month and the recipient is nerdically
challenged.
American practice is MDY, European (and Australian) is DMY, Japanese is
YMD; YDM is unattested....r
Would you bet your life that there is no level of being nerdically
challenged against which non-attestment would be insufficient to protect
you?
--
Les (BrE)
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