They're running on metric time!

"Now, to make dates alphabetically sortable, the most significant component must be the first. This would be the year. By the same argument, the next component must be the month, and so forth. Again, to make sorting possible, all components of the date must be equally long, so months and days are zero-padded (“06” instead of just “6”, etc), and the year is always specified with 4 digits (this also avoids any Y2K-related problems). In total, the format looks like this:

YYYY-MM-DD

Some examples:

* 2005-12-31
* 2006-03-30
* 2007-02-02
* 2008-01-21

Now, isn’t that just a thing of beauty? No longer will any date be ambiguous, and if you use this format, any program that provides alphabetical sorting (which should be pretty much any file manager) will be able to sort your folders correctly."

http://christianiversen.dk/blog/theyre-running-on-metric-time

ISO - Publicly Available Standards

http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/

ISO Ballot for PDF 1.7 Passed - PDF Is Now ISO 32000

"Adobe has received word that the Ballot for approval of PDF 1.7 to become the ISO 32000 Standard (DIS) has passed by a vote of 13::1."

http://blogs.adobe.com/insidepdf/2007/12/iso_ballot_for_pdf_17_passed.html

"The challenging part will be to get people to participate in the next release of the standard. Lots of people want standards but it takes a measurable resource commitment to participate."

See also: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/05/0149227