[thelist] Date and Time issue Worldwide

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Sat Apr 13 17:48:01 CDT 2002


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Hi Syed

I would have thought that the International Standards Organisation's
recommendation would be by definition more global than one country's way of
doing it.

We do dd/mm/yyyy here too, but if I'm needing to represent dates in a
culture-neutral manner, I'm going to use ISO every time.

(It's more logical too as it's in descending order of digit significance,
so it numerically sorts beautifully)

Cheers
Martin



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.

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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



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