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[Robin Cover]

+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/ ----------------- 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) > > >> >>>