Date formats lack ISO 8601 and DIN ISO 8601:2006-09 about jobsworth

[ari]

I'm confused about this request. We are only talking about human readable date formats here, so whether we use dashes, dots or slashes is irrelevant isn't it? At any rate, mostly in the app we use none of these and I might get rid of them entirely.

I'm tending to use "21 Jan 2007" as a format which is unambiguous and easier to read.

[robert-scheck]

Yes, we're talking about human readable date formats only – but that's why dashes, dots or slashes are important, because it's what people are used to read. Reading a date format that you are used to makes things faster.

Well, something like "21 Jan 2007" is even better, but needs to be taken care of at translation level.

[ari]

Moving to "21 Jan 2007" so closing this.