Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de writes:
As you can see, I have written some conversion routines to translate date information from German into English. Other information, however, is primarily in German.
What you call the English date format actually is the [[ISO 8601]] date format and as such it is the official (preferred?) date format in Germany and in many other European countries. For more info see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html