[uf-dev] Human and machine readable data format

Mark Norman Francis norm at cackhanded.net
Mon Jun 30 01:58:09 PDT 2008


On 29 Jun 2008, at 15:17, Glenn Jones wrote:
> <http://ufxtract.com/experimental/hm-readable-date.htm>


Glenn, in this page you state:

> MUST format must follow the pattern order i.e.in English  date,  
> month year, time, timezone

That is an internationalisation no-no. It's not longer "human  
readable" if the language is question demands a different order and  
you break it for the sake of easier machine parsing.

-- Norm.



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