[Gnumed-devel] Date formats (was allergy manager in CVS HEAD)

[James Busser]

On 15-Oct-08, at 2:54 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> Attached find a current screenshot of the allergy manager.
> ...
> Another screenshot shows the EMR tree. Note:

The allergy manager expresses dates in the format 2008-08-28

The EMR tree right hand panel expresses 17.09.2000

What would be the best method by which to regularize the expression  
of dates? I am partial to yyyy.mm.dd however

a) it is important that it be consistent

b) it is *essential* that it be unambiguous, and a number of groups  
and I believe even some standards and quality assurance and error  
reduction type-people have urged that the month be expressed as mmm  
(ie. with 3 characters)

c) can the regularization be abstracted so as to be able to be  
specified in a .conf file?