Forum OpenACS Development: Use YYYY-MM-DD format

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16: Use YYYY-MM-DD format (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on
Also, the Forums posting history page for each user shows dates like "04/06/04" - what is this nonsense? Is that June 6th, or July 4th? OpenACS always has the sense to use ISO YYYY-MM-DD dates in the past, why change to a ridiculous ambiguous date format now?
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Posted by Andrew Piskorski on
(Oops, I meant to say, "Is that June 4th, or April 6th?")
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Posted by Ben Koot on
Has anybody found a solution how to fix this issue.

I just launched a travel trade forum and received this comment....

08/09/05 means 08 September in 85% of the world and 09 August in 15% of it. Even that 15% (the USA) still officially uses the international system (just check what the US immigratiuon people use on their forms) so could we, please, use an unambigious system? The one the travel industry uses worldwide is day (in figures)/month (in letters)/year (in figures) thus:
08 Aug 2005. Clear and unambigious. Can we have it?

Thanks
Ben