Tom Morris: 2007-10-10

2007.10.10

Date formatting 2007-10-10T00:00:59Z

Tantek asked me a while back about why my site has DDMMYYYY datestamps. Well, that's how we do it round these parts.

But, of course, DDMM(YY)YY is just UK convention. My site is now YYYYMMDD (styled with dots, dashes and slashes depending on context). You should rock your date-time stamps and make them compliant with the ISO date format. Makes pesky things like XML Schema (and RELAX NG and everything else that's based on XSDs) and microformats compliance easier.

And, if everyone uses YYYYMMDD, we will have a lot less confusion. Promise.

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Kent, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

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