New date format: YYYY-MM-DD

[Mark Smith]

I've seen quite a lot of YYYYMMDD about, what Sarah calls 'numeric  
date' in her DateTime library. I've been using it in all my apps  
internally for ages, since it's so easy to sort and search. I have a  
few of simple functions to convert back and forth, and identify  
weekends and such like, though I've got so used to it that for  
myself, I'm just as comfortable seeing 20051014 as 14/10/05...

Mark

On 14 Oct 2005, at 23:14, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Sivakatirswami wrote:
>
>
>> Anyone want to vote for a new standard date format?
>>
>> YYYY-MM-DD
>>
>> In fact I believe the above is some standard now...
>>
>>
> ISO 8601
>
>
>>  I find myself more and more encountering this as input from  
>> systems  both of my own creation and from others...
>>
>> Now you have to do a little dance to get that into a convertable   
>> string...or am I missing something
>> input: e.g.
>>
>> 06/04/13 tab someData tab SomeMoreData etc
>>
>> set the itemdel to tab
>> put item 1 of line 1 into tDate
>> set the itemdel to "/"
>> put "/" &  item 1 of tDate after tDate
>> delete item 1 of tDate
>> set the itemdel to tab
>>
>>
> It's "fixed format" isn't it (in this case, YY/MM/DD), so could you  
> just do
>
> put line 1 into tLine
> put char 4 to 8 of tLine & "/" & char 1 to 2 of tLine into item 1  
> of tLine
>
>
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