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Re: Storing dates [message #186276 is a reply to message #186274] Sun, 22 June 2014 19:31 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jrgen Exner is currently offline  Jrgen Exner
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:55:49 -0400, richard <noreply(at)example(dot)com> wrote
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>>>> BTW: This is why ISO 8601 had been invented
>> Of course it was just a typo and 1967-09-12 is for 12. September of 1967 ;-)
>
> But how are us humans supposed to know which comes first?

Simple: because it is unambiguously defined in ISO 8601.

> what if you see 1967-31-09?

Then you are not seeing a valid date in ISO-8601 format.

> if it read 1967-Sep-09 then there is no guessing is there?

Yes there is, because in many languages "Sep" doesn't make any sense.
Furthermore obviously dates in that format cannot be sorted easily.

jue
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