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While we are at it, why not standardize: * date and time formats * language * time zones * currency Seems about as easy and has the same kind of benefits.
by smackfu 14y ago
While we are at it, why not standardize:
* date and time formats
* language
* time zones
* currency
Seems about as easy and has the same kind of benefits.
- SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago> Why not standardise ... date and time formats There are two ways to do dates and times (especially when sending machine-readable data across the web): 1) ISO 8601 2) A world of pain. Personally, I prefer option 1. So, that one is done. The "world of pain" with US/UK date formats is that code that's not even written yet can fail to interoperate, but only when it's deployed to a different machine with different system defaults and only after the 13th of the month rolls around. That kind of landmine is an unacceptable feature for a format to have.
- redial 14y agoIt seems to me that time zones are standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time
- smackfu 14y agoFor the most part, although daylight-saving time rules are very non-standard even from year to year.