[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: March 13, 2006

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri Mar 17 08:05:52 EST 2006


antti-juhani:
> Donald Bruce Stewart 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?
> 
> Yes, it's annoying (it isn't ambigous right now, but it will be again
> early next month). Either use an inherently unambiguous format (anything
> that writes out or abbreviates the month, instead of using digits), or
> use the international standard YYYY-MM-DD (which is unambiguous by ISO
> fiat).

Ok, I'll switch it to YYYY-MM-DD :)

-- Don


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