> "Is ISO 8601 really beyond comprehension for most of the population?" No. It's the _only_ representation that makes sense and is easy to read everywhere. (As

> "Is ISO 8601 really beyond comprehension for most of the population?" No. It's the _only_ representation that makes sense and is easy to read everywhere. (Assuming you show it into the user timezone.) Year -> Month -> Day -> Hour... BIG -> Medium -> small -> smaller... And because the year has 4 digits, you instantly know it's a year value. There is nothing more infuriating than those silly "yesterday" "a week ago" and other cute time formatting. What if I wanted to know the precise hour, instead of a vague "yesterday"? And don't get me started on the completely, utterly stupid "11/09/14". I'm French Canadian with many software configured halfway between US, Canadian and European standards. So when a software/website tries to be a smart-ass and gives me "11/09/14", It might be day-month-year, or year-month-day, or month-day-year. Yeah, fun times.