On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:35:19 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
wrote:

Whereas YYYY MM DD is very easily worked out by people who use any language
and the western calender.

Assuming you include the separators, which I did, and conventionally
for that format is the - character.

If not, it could mean two things in certain situations, and three in
others (depending on the year).

2004-02-01 fairly unambiguously means the 1st February 2004, as the
separation is clear, and I've never encountered anyone who used
YYYY-DD-MM that I can recall.

Neil

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