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Quote:So, in order not to go nuts with this issue, the best format is the ISO 8601 standard format of YYYY-MM-DD.
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Agreed, especially in terms of computing and records, as that format is easily sortable using a simple numerical sort.
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Quote:Moneo Wrote:So, in order not to go nuts with this issue, the best format is the ISO 8601 standard format of YYYY-MM-DD.
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Agreed, especially in terms of computing and records, as that format is easily sortable using a simple numerical sort.
Excellent point. Would hate to have to re-format dates for sorting that have an alphabetic month in several possible languages.
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