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Number   :  4436
Date     :  2003-04-24
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Date Macro
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Kan Yabumoto  wrote:

> Here's the list of current macro keywords:
> 
> Keyword comment
> ------------------------------------------------------
> YYYY 4-digit year (good for 10000 years)
> YY 2-digit year (good for a century)
> Y 1-digit year (good for a decade)
> MM 2-digit month
> MON 3-letter month name
> DD 2-digit day
> HH 2-digit hour (0-23)
> NN 2-digit minute
> SS 2-digit second
> DATE same as MMDD
> TIME same as HHNN
> WWW 3-letter day of week name
> W 1-digit day of week (Sun:0 - Sat:6)
> ------------------------------------------------------
 

Kan,

If you're going to follow ISO 8601, that last macro for day of the 
week is wrong. It should be Mon:1 - Sun:7.

http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html

You could even go the whole hog and include ISO Week No ($WW$ or 
$WK$?) so someone could create the alternate date format in the form 
2003-W14-2 (yyyy-Wweekno-dayofweek). Although the following is a bit 
clumsy it is feasible.

/$yyyy$-W/$ww-w$

Can't say I've ever had any use for that date format though.

Garry



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