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Warning, by reading the following post you may be at risk of falling asleep – it’s that boring! I recommend this post Customer Service, Retention and Damage Control. Now where else can you get that kind of honesty ;)


Did you know that certain countries use different formats to display what the date is? I vaguely knew there was some kind of difference but really never gave it much thought. Today, while writing a post for the Extreme Ezine, I decided to finally see what the difference was. I know I get about 34%, according to my logs, of traffic from outside the United States. I was glad to see there is a nice compromise I can use.


It’s called the international date format (ISO). Basically, it displays dates this way: YYYY-MM-DD. W3C® uses the following example to show how one format could be very confusing to a country that uses another:


Example: 02/04/03

Which does it mean?

  • 2nd of April 2003 (European style)
  • 4th of February 2003 (USA style)
  • 3rd of April 2002

I decided to change all of of our site’s formats to the universal international date format. So far, I’ve changed the settings on two blogs including this one but it didn’t seem to take. WordPress has a nice article on Customizing the Time and Date. It shows that by changing the setting to Y,m,j the date should show like 2008,10,26 but nothing on the site changed. It must be hard coded in there somewhere.


Hey, I told you it was going to be boring What, you didn’t believe me ? :)


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