______Re:_[CONLANG]_YYMMDD_(was:_Re:_L�adan)

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joe [mailto:joe@WANTAGE.COM]
>
>> Myself, I thing MMDDYY is the least logical(and the reverse,
>
>You have no idea how insane that drives me.  I'm in the US...I'm burdened with that every day. :)
>
>> if that exists). DDMMYY and YYMMDD are both quite sensible.
>
>I prefer YYMMDD or, actually YYYYMMDD. Primarily because it sorts correctly if
>in a field treated as a plain number. Also...it matches the number system I'm
>used to: bigger units on the left. :)
>
>For clarity, since I'm in the U.S., I use YYYY-MMM-DD: 2002-Dec-12, so that they
>don't confuse 2002-3-4 as being April 3, instead of March 4. :)
>
>I was under the impression that many countries (I thought U.S. was the
>annoying exception) use either YYMMDD or DDMMYY.
France uses DDMMYY or DDMMYYYY, and i think it is the same in germany, and italy (but
i am not sure).
China and japan use YYYYMMDD