victor - 9:53 pm on Jul 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

g1smd:
Most XML schemas already allow only dates conforming to ISO 8601, so this is where we are heading. Why not just adopt it.

I'm happy to use (and do use) ISO8601 to augment/supplement my pages. But I need to use local date formats (see earlier post) because that is what the audience I am talking to expect to see. That may, of course, change over time.

One reason not to adopt it is the outrageous charges ISO make for copies of the standard: 104 Swiss Franks! That's -- what? -- nearly USD70.

They could teach a few seach engines a lesson or two about gouging the hand that feeds them.