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

[Chris G]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 12:19:07PM -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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.
>
Which is why I, working for a USA company in the UK, always write my
dates with letters for the month:-

    02-Dec-2007

can't be misinterpreted unless you're being really obtuse!  :-)

-- 
Chris Green