Re: L-date fields

[Neil Palmer <NPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
> 
> Glenn, I understand that and do it regularly.  Date sold is yyyymmdd
> in
> the record and mm/dd/yy on the screen and in reports.  My point though
> is
> that d-o-b and a few others like that should be yyyymmdd in the record
> too, but on screen and in reports I believe it should be mm/dd/yyyy.

mm/dd/yyyy on screen & reports !  yuuucchhhh !
Isn't this the perfect opportunity to get rid of ambiguous dates ?
What is 04-06-1997 ?   April 6th 1997 ?  Not necessarily.  In Europe it
would be 04 June 1997.  However when you see 1997-04-06 is there any
doubt that this is April 4th 1997 ?  
As we move towards a global economy, isn't it about time we all started
writing dates the same way ?  I say give the users yyyy-mm-dd and don't
take any crap from them !

:-)


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