eiii: There is a changelog entry for Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga. I entered the changelog this morning, in fact :)
Learn to type the date correctly, please. ;)
JudasIscariot: It's been fixed and define "correctly" as what's correct for a European is not correct for an American and vice versa. In any case we've picked a format that should be much less ambiguous for both sides :) We'll be changing the dates on the changelogs as we get to them :)
ssokolow: Yes, ISO 8601 international standard. YYYY-MM-DD.
A properly big-endian date with globally unambiguous formatting.
JudasIscariot: No matter the format, someone will still take umbrage at it :)
Yes, but ISO 8601 has certain
objective advantages that no other format has:
1. It's language-agnostic, unlike "long" formats (no "January vs. Janvier vs. Januar vs. Январь" problems)
2. It's unambiguous (no other format has an XXXX-XX-XX structure, unlike MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY)
3. It's big-endian and zero-padded, so string sorting algorithms will "do the right thing" and sort chronologically when they encounter it in strings where it's the first non-common substring.
4. It's the most popular short date format for use in non-legacy software, libraries, APIs, and file formats, which reduces the need to transform data as it moves in/out of the system.
5. It manages to have all of these advantages while remaining human-readable, unlike POSIX "seconds since the epoch" timestamps.
Plus, it's an international standard, which always helps.
