On Dec 2, 2007 5:55 PM, Martin Marques <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Karl Larsen escribió: > > 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. > > Maybe because you say "December the third" will in other languages it > "three of December" (in spanish at least). Ah, if only it were that simple. Sometimes its month-day, other times its day-month. Classic example being the film "Born on the 4th of July". See, sometimes we are consistent with the rest of the world.
