Re: [PATCH] European date format

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> 4.3. ==> the fourth day of March, 2011
> 4.3  ==> does not match

As it should, IMHO.  This format is relying on interpreting dates as
ordinals (fourth day of the third month).  Also there'd be no way for a
regex to distinguish some dates from some FP numbers, at least when the
point is, well, "." (in Germany at least it would be ",").  But really,
there isn't any "european" date format that I'm aware of and the only
standard date format is ISO8601:2004.  If you use the extended format
(with the dashes), dates are easily recognizable and most important of
all there are no ambiguities.

> the equivalent ISO would be "-03-04"

No, this has nothing to do with ISO dates.  Dropping must always occur
from the least significant part, so you can't leave out the year.
Truncating the year designator to two digits was allowed in a former
version "by agreement", but has been eliminated from the standard, BTW.


Achim.
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