Comments on: How about a date? http://techlifepost.com/2009/06/29/how-about-a-date/ Living with technology. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:22:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Evolving Squid http://techlifepost.com/2009/06/29/how-about-a-date/comment-page-1/#comment-2053 Evolving Squid Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:35:46 +0000 http://techlifepost.com/?p=3636#comment-2053 Indeed. Even in this country, the MON codes would be: JAN FEV MAR AVR MAI JUN (can't use JUI because of JUILLET) JUI AOU SEP OCT NOV DEC The three letter abbreviations don't translate well. Indeed. Even in this country, the MON codes would be:

JAN
FEV
MAR
AVR
MAI
JUN (can’t use JUI because of JUILLET)
JUI
AOU
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC

The three letter abbreviations don’t translate well.

]]> By: Eric Jacksch http://techlifepost.com/2009/06/29/how-about-a-date/comment-page-1/#comment-1985 Eric Jacksch Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:51:04 +0000 http://techlifepost.com/?p=3636#comment-1985 2009-JAN-21 only works in some languages. The nice thing about YYYY-MM-DD is that it doesn't require translation. 2009-JAN-21 only works in some languages. The nice thing about YYYY-MM-DD is that it doesn’t require translation.

]]> By: kingthorin http://techlifepost.com/2009/06/29/how-about-a-date/comment-page-1/#comment-1981 kingthorin Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:25:24 +0000 http://techlifepost.com/?p=3636#comment-1981 It's funny that you're posting this as I've recently been working on a number of document templates and we've gotten into a discussion about date formats. I suggested that in the majority of cases 8601 would be sufficient (YYYY-MM-DD), however, not being able or interested in purchasing the actual ISO doc I'm kind of left at a loss for handling MMM or MON dates. i.e.: 2009-JAN-21 etc. Personally I find this even more clear and appropriate for some circumstances, but I wish I could find something that backed me up. Perhaps I just haven't dug far enough but 10 to 15 mins googling ISO date format etc didn't lead me to anything overly helpful. It’s funny that you’re posting this as I’ve recently been working on a number of document templates and we’ve gotten into a discussion about date formats. I suggested that in the majority of cases 8601 would be sufficient (YYYY-MM-DD), however, not being able or interested in purchasing the actual ISO doc I’m kind of left at a loss for handling MMM or MON dates. i.e.: 2009-JAN-21 etc. Personally I find this even more clear and appropriate for some circumstances, but I wish I could find something that backed me up.

Perhaps I just haven’t dug far enough but 10 to 15 mins googling ISO date format etc didn’t lead me to anything overly helpful.

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