#6338 NORM Never A: French date format is not correct

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#6338: French date format is not correct
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  Reporter:  pierre        |       Owner:  sayamindu                             
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                                   
  Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Never Assigned                        
 Component:  localization  |     Version:  Build 653                             
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  french date format localization locale
  Verified:  0             |    Blocking:                                        
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Comment(by AlbertCahalan):

 2008-02-05 is an ISO standard, intended to be unambiguous everywhere. It
 also sorts well, at least until 10000-01-01.

 Since the existance of localized dates is not immediately obvious (not all
 software is fully localized), the traditional numeric formats are all bad.
 (US, French, and Japanese) Only one day per year would be unambiguous that
 way. (08/08/08, 09/09/09, 10/10/10, 11/11/11, 12/12/12)

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