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Old 05-22-2009, 04:29 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by rogue_ronin View Post
date: I'm thinking maybe it should be yyyy/mmm/dd, but not yyyy/mm/dd -- the numbers are confusing, but 3-letter code for months is optimal.
[FX: Raises eyebrow] Optimal? [/FX]

I think you'd be better off going with the yyyy-mm-dd format of the ISO 8601 standard.

One of the problems you'll have with mmm is Locale - for example, in French, the first three letters of June and July are both 'jui' (juin and juillet)!
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