Dr
Wed Dec 31 17:21:05 CST 2003
JRS: In article <OMhlOI8zDHA.1576@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, seen in
news:microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript, Al Dunbar [MS-MVP] <alan-no-
drub-spam@hotmail.com> posted at Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:18:01 :-
>> "Dr John Stockton" <spam@merlyn.demon.co.uk> ha scritto nel messaggio
>> news:7G+S9RDi$f8$Ewy0@merlyn.demon.co.uk...
>> > Far better to use AAAA/MM/GG - EN 28601:1992 and any successors ought to
>> > be Italian national standards.
>
>I believe that "-" is preferred over "/" as a date field delimiter in the
>ISO standard. Better from our point of view as well, as that allows a date
>to be used as a file or foldername without further edits.
Unfortunately, more systems recognise "2003/12/31" as a date than
recognise "2003-12-31", which can get considered as 1960. VBscript will
accept it with '-', however, unlike javascript.
But note that I did not write that AAAA/MM/GG is right; only that it is
better.
>> > It shoul
Please trim your quotings.
ISTM possibly permissible for VBscript running in WSH to change OS
settings; but not VBscript running in Web pages.
It would be OK, of course, for a Web page to change its local copy of
the format info; and it is sufficiently easy to ignore that info and use
a programmed format.
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