Karl Larsen escribió:
Peter Gordon wrote: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.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? =)
Maybe because you say "December the third" will in other languages it "three of December" (in spanish at least).
