Rudy, Please be global. This date format really confuses the computer users in Pakistan, specially new users. Our standard is day/month/year or day-month-year. I am running Windows 98 SE on my machine. I have set it to day-month-year. Cheers, Syed Zeeshan Haider. http://syedzeeshanhaider.faithweb.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "rudy" <r937 at interlog.com> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org> Subject: Re: [thelist] Date and Time issue Worldwide Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:37:54 -0400 Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org > What time/date formats are globally acceptable? ISO standard 2002-04-12 cannot imagine anyone misuderstanding this for december 4 fits into all databases, too rudy http://rudy.ca/