From: Ed Trager (ed.trager@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 19 2010 - 15:47:51 CST
Hi, John,
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:46 AM, John (Eljay) Love-Jensen
<eljay@adobe.com> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> How did you handle date order permutation?
>
> YY@MM@DD
> DD@MM@YY
> MM@DD@YY
>
> Or did you require CCYY@MM@DD (sort of ISO 8601-ish), which would simplify the problem considerably?
>
> (Where @ is any one of the allowed delimiters.)
Yes, exactly -- I made my life easier : I required dates to be
"ISO-8601-ish" as you put it.
The format is actually "CCYY@MM@DD@" where at least the final
"delimiter/symbol" is optional -- This is done to allow the standard
CJK date format to also be "ISO-8601-ish" , i.e., "2010年02月19日" which
ends with "æ—¥" ("day"). If I remember correctly, Korean also uses a
format similar to this.
We get research data from collaborators from many parts of the world :
Normalizing dates to one format relieves at least one headache.
>
> Are there any locales that put the year in the middle (MM@YY@DD or DD@YY@MM)? Â I hope not! Â :-)
>
> Just curious,
> --Eljay
>
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