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[Ben Wilson]

Just being cheeky. I know this list, and PmWiki's customer base, is
multinational.  So, I can adjust.

But, while we're on it, why not just go with ISO so as not to confuse
us Americans?[1] (2006-10-09) If we use ISO, then there won't be the
issue between Americans/rest-of-the-world for dates. I think when the
year precedes, everybody things "Oh, ISO." When I see 09/10/06, I'm
not sure if its MM/DD or DD/MM.

Just a thought. I'm looking forward to using the recipe on a suite of
blogs I'm contemplating. Sorry to cause a ruckus.

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

On 10/9/06, Stefan Schimanski <sts at 1stein.org> wrote:
> > Amazing. The release was a month ago (9/10/06). :-)
>
> Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date:
>
> "This order is used in the United States and countries with
> U.S. influence (but the U.S. federal government sometimes uses day,
> month, year). England originally used day, month, year, then for a short
> while used month, day, year, and finally reverted to the original form
> (day, month, year) which was revived around 1900; the USA chose to stick
> with month, day, year, but did originally use day, month, year as the
> English did."
>
> (Month, Day, Year) is just confusing and not logical. But maybe the
> Americans think differently :-) And btw some more countries seem to
> think the same:
>
> Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil,
> Bulgaria, Canada (All 3 main types are used in Canada- in French and in
> English), Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic (d.m.yyyy), Denmark
> (often in the fraction form d/m-y otherwise dd-mm-yyyy or dd-mm-yy),
> Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland (d.m.y),
> France, Germany (form -Y´d.m.yyyy¡ is still often used; but see
> below), Greece, Guyana, Hong Kong (in English), Iceland, Ireland, India,
> Israel, Italy, Kenya, Latvia (dd.mm.yyyy is used more often, but
> official standard is year-month-day), Macau (in Portuguese & English),
> Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway (d.m.y; the fraction
> form d/m-y is common, but incorrect), Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal,
> Romania, Russia, Slovakia (d.m.yyyy), Slovenia, Spain, Singapore, Sweden
> (in the fraction form d/m-y, otherwise yyyy-mm-dd), Switzerland,
> Thailand (with Buddhist Era instead of Common Era), Turkey, Ukraine
> (dd.mm.yyyy), United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela


-- 
Ben Wilson
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man." HDT