Mar 07
If you ever have the need to represent a date/time (or part of a date/time) as a string for programmatic rather than human consumption (e.g. you are defining a save file format or a network protocol), please use ISO 8601 unless you have a very strong reason not to.
For more information, please read what the W3C has to say about ISO 8601 style date and time formats.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Agree 1000%!
It is still amazing how many of my coworkers publish XML with date attributes of MM/DD/YYYY. Then they write extra XSL to sort on that attribute.
Geez.