[thelist] Date and Time issue Worldwide
Chris Johnston
chris at fuzzylizard.com
Fri Apr 12 15:42:01 CDT 2002
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 16:21, Rob Smith wrote:
>
> 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
I always thought that here in North America the standard was
month/day/year
whereas in Europe it was
day/month/year
I have no idea about standards in Asia or Australia.
--
/chris
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