[thelist] Dates (was Formated tet box question [sic])

[Joshua Olson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Seyon
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:14 AM
> 
> Message from Joshua Olson (3/9/2005 10:37 AM)
> 
> >Brian,
> >
> >Since they want speed, and you want simplicity, I would be 
> inclined to
> >forego all this hoopla with the slashes and let them enter 
> the date as such:
> >
> >030905
> 
> So is this
> September 3rd, 2005
> March 9th, 2005
> September 5th, 2003
> May 9th, 2003
> 
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
> 
> Drop down boxes do give you the benefit of having the user 
> select the month 
> by name (even though the data passed to the server may be 
> numeric), thereby eliminating that uncertainty.

Marc,

This sounded like a data entry application to me--hence my suggestion.
Perhaps I was incorrect.  If I WAS correct, then there's no point to all
this complexity.  Just let them key it in , in the most simple way possible,
and move on.

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Joshua Olson
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WAE Tech Inc.
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