In the Drupal development mailing list there is a discussion about date formats. Somebody suggested the ISO YYYY-MM-DD (or YYYY/MM/DD) format and most developers seem to like the idea. For example, it was proposed that 2005/11/27 is much better than 27/11/2005.
Although I personally use dates like DD/Feb/YYYY (i.e. the month being a name not a number) on my site, and I believe this format is better, I would like to introduce this argumentation (with the French meaning of the word) here.
Please tell me what date format do you consider "official policy" in Wikipedia and why? What is the most culturally neutral format?
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:42:29 +0200, NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote:
Please tell me what date format do you consider "official policy" in Wikipedia and why? What is the most culturally neutral format?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%...
[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)]]
The following are allowed:
[[February 17]] [[February 17]], [[1958]] [[17 February]] [[17 February]] [[1958]] [[1958]]-[[02-17]] [[1958-02-17]]
These all show up in the same manner as the parser recognises them and changes them to the format specified in your preferences (I don't know the default).