[thelist] Date and Time issue Worldwide

[Peter Loron]

You could always let the user pick their choice/local standard. Or use
something like:

August 21, 1981

or

21 AUG 1981

...which is fairly locale agnostic. Longer, of course.

-Pete

Rob Smith 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