According to International Standards Organization (ISO) standard 8601, the international standard date notation is:
YYYY-MM-DD.
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Originally posted by
AKcrab:
Hmm.. When writing out a date, do international folks not use "November 11, 2005"?
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Nope.
They use 11 November, 2005 in Britain.
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Originally posted by
Jim Sachs:
I don't know that you could call it "our" way. In the military, that date would be 11 NOV 2005, which eliminates all guesswork.
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Alas computers have no clue how to sort dates written like that and have to convert it back to an internal format.