-=> Quoting Klaus Meinhard to Peter Karlsson <=-

 PK> The problem is that it only works with the German date format (dd.mm.yy),
 PK> not the Swedish (yy-mm-dd) nor American (mm-dd-yy)...

 KM> Living in Sweden, you're by now probably very adept at changing these
 KM> things. I had hoped that 01.01.2000 would be widely acceptable (should
 KM> have been 01-01-2000). I was aware of the use of the yy-mm-dd format
 KM> only for Japan. 

Actually, YYYY-MM-DD is the ISO *standard* for dates.
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS if you want to include the time. And "packed"
(YYYYMMDD or YYMMDDHHMMSS) is also acceptable.



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