Alexandre Guimaraes wrote 2003-01-09:
>with american dates, we use day/month/year and not month/day/year.
>Japan use an even better way with year/month/day.

This IS international standard and is used for example here in Sweden too, probably in most countries?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

>It makes much more sense to me :-)

Of course it does.
All number systems i know of use most significant numbers to the left.

However the date format seem to vary a lot between countries, and even several types used in parallel.

For example here we most often use YYYY-MM-DD, but sometimes century is chopped off, giving YY-MM-DD, sometimes MM-DD even.  Sometimes YYMMDD or MMDD for short.

Problem is on food i often see best before day as only six numbers, for example "020401" then i have to guess if it is YYMMDD, DDMMYY or ... whatever depending on who manufactured that silly marking device...  ARGH!  Should be illegal to mark such potential health threat other than ISO standard, or people get sick!

Curiously, do some country write the time different than
hh:mm:ss  (hours, minutes, seconds)  ?

/Morgan



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