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

Frank Ellermann nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de
Mon Dec 19 10:39:32 EST 2005


Mike Easter wrote:
 
> If an iso 8601 date is ambiguous, it hasn't cured anything.
 
>> So, Dec 7 would be 05-12-07,
 
> That's a problem, obviously.

Let's stick to yyyy-mm-dd till 2031.  RfC 3339 does a good job
to eliminate less common ISO 8601 "features", for starters it
has a clear MUST yyyy:  http://tools.ietf.org/html/3339#page-4 

BTW, it affects not only old US dates, old DE dates dd.mm.yy
(or dd.mm.yyyy) are also obsolete.

                         Bye, Frank



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