[Haskell] Re: Haskell Weekly News: March 13, 2006

[Jon Fairbairn]

On 2006-03-17 at 06:58GMT Aaron Denney wrote:
> On 2006-03-17, Donald Bruce Stewart <dons at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> > Well, there is a way -- it's fairly easy with the right regex --  but
> > is it really ambiguous? Do people find it confusing? What do other sites do?
> 
> Why not the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD?

Surely. This is, after all, an international effort.

I can't see why people don't just use this format in
general, nowadays.  Certainly it makes sense to use it in
any context where the nationality of the reader is unknown.

 Jón

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Jón Fairbairn                              Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk