Re: How to prepare your Mac for OS X 10.7 Lion

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:54:04 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:

On 2011-10-27 14:24 , Paul Sture wrote:

Yes, under Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 I can get the date format
as I want (Swiss German - e.g 31.12.2011), but things go to crap in
certain


The One True Date Format: YYYY-MM-DD

Most significant digits to the left.

(I prefer it formatted with . not -, however: 2011.10.27)

Then of course, time falls into place: YYYY-MM-DD::HH:MM:SS.nnnnnn...

Alan, you are preaching to the converted. I too prefer the dot, as it's
on the numeric keypad, and it conveniently happens to be what is used in
Switzerland and Germany.

Coincidentally the PostgreSQL documentation calls DD.MM.YYYY "German
format".

--
Paul Sture
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