Re: ChangeLog formats

[John Darrington]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:10:26AM -0400, Jason Stover wrote:
     
     > In general, I don't like dates written all as numbers, in text
     > documents.  I never know whether 2006-04-03 means April 03, or 
     > March 04. 
     
     I thought only in the U.S. did anyone use <year>-<day>-<month> or
     <month>-<day>-<year>. I thought everyone else used <year>-<month>-<day>.
     

In Australia and UK, <day>-<month>-<year> is the traditional way,
often omitting the century.  In technical circles sometimes the
ISO-8601 format: <year>-<month>-<day> is used.  I understand that in
Japan, the normal way is <month>-<year>-<day> or something.

So it all gets rather confusing unless you know to which convention the
author has been conditioned.

J'

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