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Dr J R Stockton

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More options Nov 3 2009, 5:34 pm

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From: Dr J R Stockton <reply0...@merlyn.demon.co.uk>

Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:34:53 +0000

Local: Tues, Nov 3 2009 5:34 pm

Subject: Re: Sort files collection ?

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In microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript message <22f6f6d408818bb58f99a98c
2b24a...@nntp-gateway.com>, Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:36:45, tonyb
<gu...@unknown-email.com> posted:

>I know this is a bit off thread, as this is just in normal Windows
>usage, but I use the current ISO date/time string (yy;MM;ddthh;mm;ss) as
>a unique identifier, pasting it before the file name, for any files I
>want to keep in the order I filed them or received them (usually work
>related).

I do not see where ISO 8601:2004 allows either a two-digit year or a
semicolon as separator. While the first two digits of the year will not
change soon, they do serve to indicate that the field order is not MDY
of DMY, and is probably YMD.

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