[Zope] time formatting

Bill Anderson bill@libc.org
24 May 2001 16:54:26 -0600


On 23 May 2001 14:52:13 -0400, ethan mindlace fremen wrote:
> 
> > Who, apart from the Americans, uses that format?
> > I only ask 'cos I'm interested :-)
> 
> CMF uses YYYY-MM-DD because it uses dublin core, IIRC.
> 
> Americans use MM-DD-YYY because they're dreadfully brain damaged in every 
> aspect of measurement.
> 
> I can't ever get MM-DD or DD-MM right after living on both sides of the 
> pond so I just use ISO.

With  all my time in the Military (US), I got used to '01 jan 2001'
myself. I like it today for it's clarity. Kinda obvious what month, day
and year it is. ;)

Bill