Re^4: sorting dates in YYYYMMDD format

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Re^5: sorting dates in YYYYMMDD format by QM (Parson) on Jul 11, 2013 at 08:21 UTC
;) Cultural standards. From Europeans I've seen DDMMYY, from U.S. it's generally MMDDYY (and Canadians are conflicted). Heck, even Wikipedia's ISO 8601 has a section Related Standards, detailing the country-specific standards (that may or may not conform to ISO 8601). I suspect the major reason we have standards is because of TIMTOWTDI. I'm also reminded of XKCD's comment on standards. -QM -- Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of	[reply]
Re^5: sorting dates in YYYYMMDD format (Correction) by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2013 at 10:15 UTC
"Hos does a date in ISO 8601 format -- YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss (and variations) -- does not sort correctly?" -- self. That horrible sentence should have been: "How do dates in ... -- YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss (and variations) -- not sort correctly?".	[reply]