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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