[Zope-Coders] Replace Zope2 DateTime._parse() with Zope3's DateTimeParser

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:24:31 -0500


Lennart Regebro wrote:

> Actually, I think that 05.12.02 should be 5th December 2002, while 
> 05/12/02
> should be 12th of May 2002, and 05-12-02 and 051202 should be 2nd december
> 2005, simply because you US guys usually use slashes, while european guys
> usually use dots, while us internationally compliant dudes in Sweden 
> mostly
> use dashes or nothing at all.

You can't claim "international compliance" unless you use ISO format, 
putting the 4-digit year first. :-)

http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/isodates/datefmt.html

planning-ahead-for-2100-ly y'rs, Shane