ISO is international and covers French, German, Spanish, Swedish,
Norwegian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Yiddish, etc, etc.


The English standard, which is the subject of this thread, is 11/9/2001

"Bill Turner" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:31:22 +0100, "Airy R. Bean"
wrote:
In the English-speaking world, it should read, "11/9/2001"
The ISO standard is 20040911. Largest time unit first (year) then next
largest (month) then smallest (day). One advantage to this format is
computers can sort dates as a simple number without any special
programming.
This can be continued with hours, minutes and seconds if desired.
If the world were a rational place, this would become universal
overnight.