[OT] Re: David S Wiener is out of the office.

[Karl Larsen]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 10:56 -0800, Brian Mury wrote:
>   
>> I doubt it - that's in the future. Different parts of the world have
>> different conventions for the order of the day and month. 12/06/2007 may
>> mean 12 June to you, but it means 6 December to the OP.
>>     
>
> Why can't we all just follow ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) and be done with it?
> =)
>   
    Because it was "not invented here". I have no idea why the USA uses 
mounth-day-year but we  have done so all my working life. I did see 
things from Europe with the year-month-day and was not confused. But it 
can be.

Karl


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