The ISO Date Format
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Description: Discussion of formats for expressing dates, with particular reference to the ISO 8601 date format - by Peter Meyer.
It is well known that currently dates (in the Gregorian calendar) are expressed in several different ways in various countries. For example what the British write as "8/3/96" the Americans write as "3/8/96" and the Swiss as "8.3.96" or "08.03.96". As daily life becomes more internationalized (and web users quickly note that information is available from all parts of the globe) one may find oneself reading documents in which different date formats are used even though the documents are in the same language. When one reads that something occurred on "3/8/96" one may be left wondering whether it occurred in March or in August. Life would be slightly easier if dates were expressed in a common format.
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