[thelist] Date and Time issue Worldwide

[Hans Zaunere]

Use UNIX timestamps.

Although I've seen Microsoft Certified Solutions providers unable to
comprehend what a timestamp is, it is a globally acceptable time
format, allowing anyone, in any timezone, to use their date/time
functions to produce what they want, in they're locale.

Hans Z.
New York PHP
http://nyphp.org


--- Rob Smith <rob.smith at thermon.com> wrote:
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> Hi thelist,
>
> I need moral support on this one. I'm not necessarily trying to put a
> date
> into form field/database cell, I can do that. What time/date formats
> are
> globally acceptable?
>
> For example, Richard Livsey's Birth Day is
>
> 21/8/1981
>
> Americans might say:
>
> 8/21/1981
>
> Other's way, who knows. I've seen them all.
>
> BTW, Richard on your site: www.cache-22.co.uk/index_css.php
> interesting
> approach to web design. I never knew there was a Internet Fraud
> Complain
> Center. :-) funny
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