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I see many sites that display a date in the format of 02/03/04. Which number
is the year, month and day? Who knows.

Is there a way for me to query the OS's date format and display a date
consistent with that format?

Thanks

ted wrote:

> I see many sites that display a date in the format of 02/03/04. Which
> number is the year, month and day? Who knows.

> Is there a way for me to query the OS's date format and display a date
> consistent with that format?

> Thanks

Display them all and let them figure it out.

Previously in alt.html, ted <> said:

> Is there a way for me to query the OS's date format and display a date
> consistent with that format?

Yeah sure, check my OS settings. Why not change a few while you're
there?

IOW, no. It would be a massive security risk.

--
Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

"ted" <> wrote in message
news:kl7ud.45$Mp4.22@lakeread07...
>I see many sites that display a date in the format of 02/03/04. Which
>number is the year, month and day? Who knows.
>
> Is there a way for me to query the OS's date format and display a date
> consistent with that format?
>

You think the visitor doesn't know what day it is, and/ or cannot get that
from their own computer?
Are they coming to your site to find out what day it is, or are they coming
for a different reason?

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-Karl Core
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:06:16 -0500, Karl Core wrote:

> "ted" <> wrote in message
> news:kl7ud.45$Mp4.22@lakeread07...
>>I see many sites that display a date in the format of 02/03/04. Which
>>number is the year, month and day? Who knows.

Well, I know that your example should be March 4, 2002, but many (who
have never had to write a routine to sort date strings) would disagree.

>> Is there a way for me to query the OS's date format and display a date
>> consistent with that format?
>
> You think the visitor doesn't know what day it is, and/ or cannot get that
> from their own computer?
> Are they coming to your site to find out what day it is, or are they coming
> for a different reason?

What about a travel site, where they are asking you to confirm your
itinerary? A bank confirming the date of a future bill payment? A
history site listing famous battles, a sports team's schedule, the date
on an archived press release. Many examples where the date shown is not
today's date.

I personally would prefer to see the date given as Dec 10, 2004 (or, if
space is really that critical, Dec10/04 fits into the same 8 chars as
the OP's example).

--
Greg Schmidt
Trawna Publications http://www.trawna.com/

ted wrote:

> I see many sites that display a date in the format of 02/03/04. Which
> number is the year, month and day? Who knows.

2nd February 2004 leaves no room for misunderstanding (unless the user
doesn't read that language - in which case why are they reading the
document anyway?

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:55:12 -0500, ted <>
wrote:

> I see many sites that display a date in the format of 02/03/04. Which
> number
> is the year, month and day? Who knows.
>
> Is there a way for me to query the OS's date format and display a date
> consistent with that format?

Never heard of a workable method. Best practice - state month explicitly,
state year in full form. Use your correct local format.

04 March 2002
March 4, 2002
etc.

ted wrote:
|| I see many sites that display a date in the format of
|| 02/03/04. Which number is the year, month and day? Who knows.
||
|| Is there a way for me to query the OS's date format and
|| display a date consistent with that format?
||
|| Thanks

Try 02 Mar 04 or 03 Feb 04, most can figure that out and it only
takes one more space.

BJ

"BJ in Texas" <> wrote in message
news:nRiud.42475$. com...
> ted wrote:
> || I see many sites that display a date in the format of
> || 02/03/04. Which number is the year, month and day? Who knows.
> ||
> || Is there a way for me to query the OS's date format and
> || display a date consistent with that format?
> ||
> || Thanks
>
> Try 02 Mar 04 or 03 Feb 04, most can figure that out and it only
> takes one more space.
>
> BJ
>

ISO8601: 2004-03-02

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/formats.htm

"Greg Schmidt" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:06:16 -0500, Karl Core wrote:
>
> > "ted" <> wrote in message
> > news:kl7ud.45$Mp4.22@lakeread07...
> >>I see many sites that display a date in the format of 02/03/04. Which
> >>number is the year, month and day? Who knows.
>
> Well, I know that your example should be March 4, 2002, but many (who
> have never had to write a routine to sort date strings) would disagree.
>

You do? I think it could be any one of
March 4, 2002
March 2, 2004
February 3, 2004.

> >> Is there a way for me to query the OS's date format and display a date
> >> consistent with that format?
> >
> > You think the visitor doesn't know what day it is, and/ or cannot get
that
> > from their own computer?
> > Are they coming to your site to find out what day it is, or are they
coming
> > for a different reason?
>
> What about a travel site, where they are asking you to confirm your
> itinerary? A bank confirming the date of a future bill payment? A
> history site listing famous battles, a sports team's schedule, the date
> on an archived press release. Many examples where the date shown is not
> today's date.
>
> I personally would prefer to see the date given as Dec 10, 2004 (or, if
> space is really that critical, Dec10/04 fits into the same 8 chars as
> the OP's example).
>

How about ISO8601: 2004-03-02

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/formats.htm