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Re: Date Formats

Date	2011-11-05 16:50 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Date Formats
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On 11/3/2011 3:44 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> I have written a rant on why you should not let Java localise
> date/time formats for you.  Instead you should use ISO-8601.
>
> See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/calendar.html#ISO

May I suggest that you create http://mindprod.com/jgloss/usability.html
where you explain that "programmers designing UI's according to
programming logic and end users just having to learn to do it the
right computer way instead of the way the have usually done it"
went out of fashion many many years ago.

Arne

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Date Formats Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-03 00:44 -0700
  Re: Date Formats Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-05 16:50 -0400

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