Re: lo xajmi tersitna

[Jim Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu>]

> John Minot <minots@texas.net> writes: (Wed, 09 Jun 1999 08:53:03 -0500)
> 
> "Evgueni.Sklyanin" wrote:
> > 'day-of-week:week:day:month:year' (number of the week is usually omitted),
> > for instance, Tuesday, June 8th, 1999 = 3::8:6:1999
> > 
> > The date is Tuesday, June 8th, 1999 =
> > li ci pi'epi'e bi pi'exa pi'epasososo cu detri
> 
> Has there ever been any dialog on why the order is month/day/year and
> whether it should be so?  American English is one of the few languages
> in the world with that order.  British English, Spanish, Russian, and
> practically every language in the world (although not Japanese, which
> has year/month/day) have day/month/year.

ISO 8601 specifies a time part order of yyyy-mm-dd, e.g. 1999-06-09.  
The standard apparently is in wide use in the EU.  References:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html -- A nice summary of ISO 8601
http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf           -- The standard (14pp PDF, 130Kb)

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