Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Wed, 26 Feb 92 13:09 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA02288; Wed, 26 Feb 92 11:38:26 EST Received: from rutgers.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA01210; Wed, 26 Feb 92 10:42:47 -0500 Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) with UUCP id AA14382; Wed, 26 Feb 92 09:41:35 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA29257; Wed, 26 Feb 92 09:35:45 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (via uunet.UU.NET) by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA06066; Wed, 26 Feb 92 09:05:16 -0500 Message-Id: <9202261405.AA06066@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 2338; Wed, 26 Feb 92 08:58:35 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 1774; Wed, 26 Feb 92 08:58:09 EST Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 08:56:00 EST Reply-To: "61510::GILSON" Sender: Lojban list From: "61510::GILSON" Subject: Dates X-To: lojban To: John Cowan Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Wed Feb 26 13:09:14 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Edmund Grimley-Evans writes: >The form YYYY-MM-DD is >already widely used in the Esperanto-speaking world... It is also standard in Canadian government practice, I believe also in an ISO standard, and very close to what the Japanese regularly use (the only difference is that they use periods rather than hyphens, and count from the start of the Emperor's reign rather than from the assumed date of Jesus' birth). It is also most logical, since every digit means a smaller unit than the pre- ceding one, whether within fields or across them.