Re: [Gnumed-devel] Clinicians: document content date in archive

[James Busser]

> > So, what do people think we should allow as input in terms
> > of string parsing. I am thinking of (d=digit):
> >
> >  dddd - year
> >  d/dddd or dd/dddd - month/year
> >  dddd/dd/dd - year/month/day
> >  dddd/dd/dd hh:mm:ss - year/month/day hour:minutes:seconds
> >
> > Do you think this will suffice ?

d or dd - date of current month
d/d  or dd/dd - both ambiguous for month/day or day/month of current  
year
   (USA = month/day, CA = day/month despite which many in CA use as  
month/day)

Except for "d", which is probably agreed unambiguous hence easy to  
implement, the issue is whether to wholly reject entries that lack a  
4-character year. To accept anything less, a local preference would  
have to be supported, yes? Maybe a date format per country (or is the  
date format specified already in the OS?)

Note earlier discussion on this:
        http://www.gnumed.org/documentation/develop/discussion/date.html