[SpamCop-List] Re: spam is NOT 10 days old to me - got it this a.m.

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:

> Ideally, dates would be written in ISO 8601 format, and abbreviated
> dates would be written in abbreviated ISO 8601 formats.
>
> Under those circumstances, 12/7 wouldn't be appropriate for either
> December 7 or July 12, using English language for the dates, and 7/12
> also wouldn't be appropriate for whatever language you wanted to say
> July 12 or December 7 in either.

The business of abbreviating iso 8601 causes more controversy  or
argument than does writing out the format as YYYY-MM-DD, because if you
take the year out, the 'order' of the date and month begins to resemble
the US style.

The century can be assumed, and the separators are always hyphens, not
dots or slashes.

So, Dec 7 would be 05-12-07, however, if you are going to assume the
year, you are supposed to prepend some dashes, as either --1207
or --12-07.

I would also comment that the US military, which once wrote their dates
backwards, as 7 Dec 2005, is doing a pretty good job of converting over
to ISO forms of year month date instead of date month year.  YMD is more
logical, to put the year, then the month, then the day/date, just like
we do our numbers and alphabetization, with the big end on the left and
the little end on the right.



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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin