[thelist] Date and Time issue Worldwide

Syed Zeeshan Haider szh at hotpop.com
Sat Apr 13 16:40:12 CDT 2002


Hi Simon,
About DD/MM/YYYY, I strongly agree with your opinion. It must be this.
We use DD-MM-YYYY also here in Pakistan.
Syed Zeeshan Haider.
http://syedzeeshanhaider.faithweb.com/

----- Original Message -----
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 00:32:30 +0100
From: Simon Willison <simon at incutio.com>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Date and Time issue Worldwide
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org

Chris Johnston wrote:

>I always thought that here in North America the standard was
>
>month/day/year
>
>whereas in Europe it was
>
>day/month/year
>
Yeah I never understood why Americans do it that way round. A day is
shorter than a month which is shorter than a year, hence DD/MM/YYYY.
whatever the reason, personally I always make it obvious which number is
the day and which is the month (preferable by displaying a date as 13th
April 2002 and keeping any date selection mechanisms to holding the
names of all 12 months in a select box). As for internal storage you
can't go wrong with a unix timestamp - unless of course you need to
record dates earlier than 1970 ;)









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