On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 7:40 PM DL Neil <pythonl...@danceswithmice.info> wrote: > This would normally see us coding "2019-02-03". The arrangement of > larger to ever more precise time-units is very useful in databases and > applications such as file-names, because it sequences logically. > > However, that is not the way 'normal people' like to write their dates. > The trouble with 'common practice' though, is that it is localised. > There is great confusion between the way different cultures (even > staying within the English-speaking world) express dates. Is 3/2/2019 > referring to "3rd February" or "March 2nd"?
Which is why I always write dates in sorted format, usually eschewing delimiters: //CJA 20160511: Is this still happening? I don't remember seeing it in three parts of forever. That said, I am aware that I am not in any way a "normal person". Using month names as per your other example is probably a fair compromise with other humans. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
