On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:01:41PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 01/04/11 20:17, Lisi wrote: > > On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2011-04-01, Freeman <hew...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> 04/01/11 ! > >> > >> What does the 4th of January have to do with it??!!!! > > > > Perhaps on an international list we should say the month names as Liam has > > here. Otherwise one is playing guessing games to work out the upbringing of > > any writer who uses an ambiguous form for the date. In this case the > > context > > made guessing easy, but that is rarely the case. > > The North American date format wasn't that hard to work out - though I > suspect Liam is taking the p1ss (2 weeks late?).
For international mailing lists, if you stick with ISO 8601, there should
be no ambiguity in the date:
2011-04-01 or 20110401 is defined as April 1, 2011, or truncated as
11-04-01 or 110401.
Standards. Who would have thought?
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