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For dates, every country seems to do something different. The date '04/01/80' means '4th January' in Britain, but 'April 1st' in America. This can lead to problems in computer programs, on QSL cards, on Web Pages, in email, and in newsletters. In a few years time we will also have dates like '02/05/03' and '04/09/05' to contend with.

ISO 8601 has a solution to these problems. The date is written using the full four digits for the year, with the order Year-Month-Day, and hyphen separators. A leading Zero is used for '01' to '09'.

However, I note that the ISO standard only refers to wholly numeric dates. Whilst I realise that a date written as '4th January 1980', here in Britain, is clear enough in itself; over in America that same date would be written as 'January 4th, 1980'. This again shows a difference in style, one that merely reflects the old '04/01/80' (dd/mm/yy) and '01/04/80' (mm/dd/yy) short-hand date formats
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  • 工作学习 / English / 日期表示法中DD/MM/YYYY和MM/DD/YYYY哪一种更常见??谢! -mildkiller(M.K.); 2003-3-10 (#1081534@0)
    • 前者是加拿大土法，后者是美国土法 -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081537@0)
      • 土, one is north Amercian another one is European. but i dodn't which one is which one, 土 together -ningxin0809(雁影行洲); 2003-3-10 (#1081540@0)
        • 我老板这么告诉我的，应该不会错 -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081544@0)
          • your boss didn't take his English literary course very well :) -ningxin0809(雁影行洲); 2003-3-10 (#1081556@0)
            • I‘D LIEK TO FORWARD UR COMMENT TO HIM -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081562@0)
              • go ahead -win(秋天的菠菜); 2003-3-10 (#1081563@0)
                • why you decided it for me? -ningxin0809(雁影行洲); 2003-3-10 (#1081595@0)
                  • HE IS MY CAMEL JF？ -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081601@0)
                    • sure I am somebody's JF, but who is camel ? -win(秋天的菠菜); 2003-3-10 (#1081613@0)
                    • no, your camel Jf never came here. -ningxin0809(雁影行洲); 2003-3-10 (#1081625@0)
                      • where does he usually go ? -win(秋天的菠菜); 2003-3-10 (#1081630@0)
                      • SO WHERE DOES HE USUALLY GO AH？ -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081632@0)
                        • I don't know. his BBS I am not interested in it. -ningxin0809(雁影行洲); 2003-3-10 (#1081650@0)
                          • 那你们俩一个人一台电脑？然后晚上各自刷刷刷？ -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081658@0)
                            • smart -ningxin0809(雁影行洲); 2003-3-10 (#1081667@0)
                              • (#1081524) -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081670@0)
                            • 各刷各的碗，好习惯 -win(秋天的菠菜); 2003-3-10 (#1081680@0)
                        • 剽窃我的问题 -win(秋天的菠菜); 2003-3-10 (#1081678@0)
                          • 你崇拜我 -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081683@0)
                            • 你是张海迪？ -win(秋天的菠菜); 2003-3-10 (#1081729@0)
                              • 你崇拜她？ -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081730@0)
                                • 你的腿最近好些没？ -win(秋天的菠菜); 2003-3-10 (#1081734@0)
                                  • 基本上实现了直立行走 -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081739@0)
                                    • 你最近还在周口店附近出没吗？上次在蓝田见你埋沙里日光浴呢 -win(秋天的菠菜); 2003-3-10 (#1081745@0)
                                      • 没有俺主要在 沧海月明猪有泪，去蓝田需要签证，还都是山路，不好走 -midnightblues(真的要回国); 2003-3-10 (#1081753@0)
          • Yes,My boss said same thing.其实你俩都对啊,CANADA有时是采用些欧洲的方式,以不忘自己是英联邦的人. -ivy_sh(呼吸着的青草); 2003-3-10 (#1082237@0)
    • the latter is common in north america -tongcd(不明真相的总是群众); 2003-3-10 (#1081538@0)
      • not sure. actually we use the first format/ -ningxin0809(雁影行洲); 2003-3-10 (#1081552@0)
    • In MS Windows 2k regional settings, if you set your locale to US English, the date format is MM/DD/YYYY, if it's Canadian English, the format is DD/MM/YYYY. Personally, I prefer DD/MM/YYYY. -lmx(流氓兔); 2003-3-10 (#1081557@0)
    • 据说后者是美国常见的表示法。而加拿大，这个多元文化的国家，谁敢说别人用的是哪种方法呀？各个政府部门、机关、企业、学校、商号、个人，每一次用的表达法可能都不一样。 -rollor(Rollor); 2003-3-10 (#1081559@0)
    • YYYY-MM-DD is the universal format, it won't get confused. -wins(wins); 2003-3-10 (#1081585@0)
    • .. -ningxin0809(雁影行洲); 2003-3-10 {958} (#1081590@0)
      For dates, every country seems to do something different. The date '04/01/80' means '4th January' in Britain, but 'April 1st' in America. This can lead to problems in computer programs, on QSL cards, on Web Pages, in email, and in newsletters. In a few years time we will also have dates like '02/05/03' and '04/09/05' to contend with.

      ISO 8601 has a solution to these problems. The date is written using the full four digits for the year, with the order Year-Month-Day, and hyphen separators. A leading Zero is used for '01' to '09'.

      However, I note that the ISO standard only refers to wholly numeric dates. Whilst I realise that a date written as '4th January 1980', here in Britain, is clear enough in itself; over in America that same date would be written as 'January 4th, 1980'. This again shows a difference in style, one that merely reflects the old '04/01/80' (dd/mm/yy) and '01/04/80' (mm/dd/yy) short-hand date formats
    • According to ISO 8601:1988, the date format should be YYYY-MM-DD, in year-month-date. -pyramid(㊣金字塔); 2003-3-10 (#1081727@0)
      • 和中国人的习惯一样 -greeting(随便看看); 2003-3-10 (#1082170@0)

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