+1 for YYYY-MM-DD
On which, see ISO and W3C:
http://www.iso.org/iso/date_and_time_format
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime (profile)
PS. Poor Bob, I see that I inadvertently shortchanged him by one
UNDERSCORE. His filename has:
SPACE UNDERSCORE UNDERSCORE HYPHEN UNDERSCORE UNDERSCORE HYPHEN UNDERSCORE UNDERSCORE SPACE
Robin Cover
OASIS, Chief Information Architect
Editor, Cover Pages and XML Daily Newslink
http://xml.coverpages.org/
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On Wed, 21 May 2008, Greg Rundlett wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008 12:04:15 pm Scott McGrath wrote:
>> In nearly all cases of file naming, url, uri and similar discussions,
>> you'll not hear anything of value from me.
>>
>> But in this case, I'd point out that when using dates in a file name there
>> is an easy way have them sort in chronological order FileNameYYYYMMDD.
>> Maybe this is only an issue on your desktop, but figuring out this little
>> detail sure made my life easier.
>
> Bravo, I'm glad to see Scott leading good practice by his example. That is
> such a good idea that ISO standardized it [1], and I have incorporated it
> into our guidelines for OASIS (staff) in creating filenames with dates [2]
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
> [2] http://ts.oasis-open.org/wiki/index.php/Oasis_Web_Page_Guidelines
>
> It also helps disambiguate the regional difference between Europe and America
> where Europeans use the day first, and month second whereas Americans use the
> month first and day second (in short-hand format).
>
> For example:
> 10/31 is obviously (sarcasm) haloween, my birthday and the 31st day of October
> and lacking any year specificity. (Europeans would write 31/10 )
>
> 04/01 is not obviously any particular date (Is it April 2001? The 4th day of
> January? The first day of April?)
>
> 2008-04-01 is precise
>
> What Bob should have done is be more precise in his date (he used a two-digit
> year), and be more precise in his template to indicate placeholders
> (YYYY-MM-DD)
>
>
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