On 8/10/07, benedict wrote: > jeffmeh;220105 Wrote: > > Ah, UK date format. For a moment I was wondering how you could be so > > patient as to perceive no problems with a four month wait, lol. > > Ref UK/US date format – it's always puzzled me why the Americans order > their dates the way they do. Surely it makes sense, be it in computing > or otherwise to move from the most significant "bit"/highest order of > magnitude to the lowest. – It seems a bit like quoting time as > hours:seconds:minutes. Or am I missing something?
I agree - although the UK date format doesn't make any more sense from this perspective; it's the countries that use yyyy-mm-dd that really have it right IMO. It sorts a LOT better in text-based lists too. Cheers, Geoff _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
