Great to see that the author's quite opinionated on date formats. It doesn't support any of the ridiculous local cultural conventions like MM/dd/yy or dd/MM/yy

Great to see that the author's quite opinionated on date formats. It doesn't support any of the ridiculous local cultural conventions like MM/dd/yy or dd/MM/yy but he recommends the unambiguous ISO standard yyyy-MM-dd. Also: "Last-Modified: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:24:52 GMT ... // Alan's editorializing: Needless to say, this is a stupid format." Date formats cause me constant struggle because I live in one country, work for a company based in another, and use services from a third, all with different local conventions! Somehow every program and website thinks it knows what date format I want, but that just means I can't reliably transfer a date from Paypal into a LibreOffice spreadsheet or compare a date in Paypal with a date on my bank statement and web host.