On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:57:55 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: >On 9/16/2013 9:47 PM, John Gilmore wrote: >> I meant something a little more restrictive, to wit the regions that >> used to be [and in some measure still are] colo[u]red pink on world >> maps. > >The problem is worse than just regional. My last time in Halifax, we >shopped at a mall for books, candy, and jewelry, and noticed that the >receipts had three different date formats. > Ah, but where were the various cash registers manufactured, or their embedded software written?
Consequences of globalization. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
