Re: Date formats

Glenn,

Just look at it this way, as if the info was contained in circles: You
can either go from the smallest information "item" (the day) up to
the biggest (the year) or, as in the *ISO format, from the biggest
(year) down to the smallest (day).

In the US format your order is: middle, small, big...

I'm from Venezuela, where we use the DD/MM/YYYY format so, of course,
I won't deny my own bias, either :-)

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Glenn Hopwood <ghopwood.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you use numeric fields for your dates I think mmddyy has a more
'natural' sort then ddmmyy. Of course, being from the US, I'm biased. :)

Glenn

Carel Teijgeler wrote:

I think the illogical *USA date format is more a statistical solution to
compare months' profits over the years.

Or is there another reason for this format?

With regards,
Carel Teijgeler


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On 14-12-2009 at 12:47 Jon Paris wrote:

"some countries"?  How about "just about all".  MDY is such an unusual

format that in IBM date terms the four digit year version is

designated as *USA!

When I was working on IBM's Y2K offerings the contractor that produced the

tool did not originally include an MDY version as they had never

heard of it.  As a result (and luckily for them) they had never

encountered the idiotic multiply by 10000.01 conversion method either.

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