James writes,

> the nice thing about standards for date formats is that you have so
many 
> to choose from...

While it's true that a great many date formats have been used over the
years, I know of only one that could be called "standard", in the sense
of having been adopted by a national or international standards body.
That would be ISO 8601.  

When you see a date like 05/06/07, that might be May 6, 2007, or May 6,
1907, or June 5, 2007, or June 7, 2005, or ... .  A date of "97 JAN 10"
might not be meaningful to someone who doesn't read English.  But a date
in ISO standard format, like 2009-05-07, leaves little room for
ambiguity.

Walter  

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