Re: Re: Perl 6 release date

[demerphq]

Oh, and your third rule is broken... Do you want YYYY-DD-MM or YYYY-MM-DD?

Gak!

Exactly where is YYYY-DD-MM a legal date? AFAIK with regards to dates then if it starts with YYYY then it _always_ is in YYYYMMDD (with or without seperators).

Or were you just being pedantic about the ambiguity of 'YYYY'?

UPDATE
Well, i just did a google for YYYYDDMM, and there were a whole 169 hits. So that means there are a few fools actually using this format. And they even seem to be in the computer trade as well. Which to me is a bit of a scary thought. But then I did a google for 'YYYYMMDD' to discover some 103000 hits. So they are seriously outnumbered. Outnumbered enough to be overlooked I'd say. Thank god.

--- demerphq
my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

[diotalevi]

I can't speak for others but I always thought y'all Europeans were wacky for doing YYYYMMDD. Or at least it induces headaches when I'm working with people in the UK. Of course, my perception of date-wackiness is entirely contextual - it's US-standard form to write our days before months. If someone knows where that came from that'd would be interesting to know.

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[sauoq]

I always thought y'all Europeans were wacky for doing YYYYMMDD.

We Americans do it that way too. There is a good reason for it. It sorts correctly.

Don't confuse this with the normal written formats. In the U.S. we write mm/dd/yyyy but in Europe they write it as dd/mm/yyyy which does seem to make some sense in a least-significant to most-significant sort of way.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

[blakem]

Or were you just being pedantic about the ambiguity of 'YYYY'?

Nope. The original node had a typo and asked for YYYY-DD-MM.

-Blake

[demerphq]

Ahh..... the mystery is resolved.

;-)

--- demerphq
my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

[BUU]

I believe here in the states yyyyddmm is a fairly common way of writing it.

[elbie]

Actually, I've never seen yyyyddmm. I have seen mmddyyyy very frequently when dealing with (North) Americans however, where as it is more common for the rest of the world to use ddmmyyyy.

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