Justin JIH, a Taiwanese American, sets out the reasons why adopting the YYYY-MM-DD date format is preferred. Includes useful links to further resources.
Free source code and tutorial for a Gregorian Date To ISO Date Converter for Windows.
How and why to use international date format in your document - from the W3C QA section.
Discussion of formats for expressing dates, with particular reference to the ISO 8601 date format - by Peter Meyer.
WeekNumber Calculation Explanation.
Discussion of date formats for internationalisation.
How to write web sites that can be understood world wide - including ways to make dates unambiguous to all readers.
A proposal to use the ISO date format for Internet applications - by Chris Newman.
Changing your operating system's default date format to use four-digit years - University of California at Berkeley.
Useful overview and discussion on adopting ISO standards and four-digit year formats as part of Y2K readiness and future-proofing of software - University of California at Berkeley.
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