opinion on international date standards (kinda long)

Subject: opinion on international date standards (kinda long)
From: Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:58:01 +0100

Hello John,


* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von JOHN -dot- POSADA -at- EY -dot- COM an All am 23.07.97

JJ> One of my applications developers posed a question regarding
JJ> formatting of date for international use.

this definitely is a localisation issue. You cannot force someone to use a
different date format than the one he or she has used since childhood.

Many operating systems solve this problem for you. Your programmers simply must
learn to accept such offers and not to try do do everything by themselves.


Greetings from Germany,
Alexander

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