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[Clive D.W. Feather]

Lee Kindness said:
[lots of sensible things]

> And personally i'd always use a date format like 20011212155523
> (yyyymmddhhMMss) but that's just be being stupid and technically
> minded in non-technical world!

The ISO standard for writing dates and times gives:

    20011212T155523                short form
    2001-12-12T15:55:23            long form

The "T" is necessary to show the boundary between date and time in the
short form, and is advisable in the long form.

Incidentally, the correct way to write "December 13th" without giving a
year is "-12-13".

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