Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> Writing a date in the order "month day year" is done only in the US.
> Internationally, it's much more common to use "25 March 1995" or
> "1995-03-25". The latter is the ISO standard. I'd suggest using one of
> these two forms in the example.
Coincidentally, I've just started a process of bringing *.answers over to
the ISO 8601 standard (historically all the records have used the US
MM/DD/YY which as a European I find extremely confusing :).
Writing the month in full may be unhelpful for internationalisation
purposes, but at least it's unambiguous.
> I'd also suggest using the ".example" pseudo-domain in examples. For all
> anybody knows, "foosys.com" really does exist.
[nick@giles](~): whois foosys.com
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
No match for "FOOSYS.COM".
:-)
But nevertheless, point taken. I tend to the vague opinion that using
.example might confuse less-aware new readers.
Cheers,
Nick
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