OT: Date format: Was: Re: Mails not from me

[Chris Jones]

Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 11/02/2010 06:58 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>> The only systems that makes sense to me are
>>
>> dd-mm-yy
>>
>> or
>>
>> yy-mm-dd
> 
> Apparently everybody on this list forgot basic semantics.  Especially
> Mr. Jones here who thinks he would say: 2010 November 2nd and that it
> would make sense in any context.

yy-mm-dd goes in order of decreasing unit of time size. How can this not 
make sense in any context ? It is after all exactly how any sort of 
numerical quantity is presented.

I agree, you wouldn't go around saying "2010 November 2nd", but turn 
that into a numerical date 20101102, as is commonly used in databases 
etc., then it makes *much* more sense than dd-mm-yy as sorting by value 
places the dates in correct chronological order.