I was just referring about one of last posts were someone had a mistake about "American" definition and South America is "America" too, not only United States. :)
We call ourself as Brazillian, ou melhor, Brasileiros! :) In portuguese, the best definition for United States people is "Estadosunidenses", but it's not very common and that definition is mostly used in academic range. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Michael Edward McNeil <[email protected]>wrote: > 2010/3/18 Alfredo Dal´Ava Júnior <[email protected]> > > I'm American from Brazil we always use dd/mm/yyyy :-) >> > > > So, that's how Brazilians refer to themselves and each other: "I'm an > American"? And even if so (which I very much doubt), spelled that way as in > American [sic] English? Yeah, sure. (If you want to call yourselves > "Americanos" or however it would be spelt in Brazilian Portuguese, be my > guest.) > > Best I can see, whenever others object to [U.S.] Americans calling > themselves Americans (who really are the only folks who use that term for > themselves, spelt as in English), it's purely because they want to stick it > to Americans. > > Michael McNeil > > > > Anyway, in a "computer context" I think that yyyy-mm-dd is a good design, >> because I'ts easier to sort and organize by a script in a cronological >> order. >> >> As it may cause a lot of confusion, I assume that one way is to use a tag >> to identify date format use, like "GMT-3" when we write about time. >> >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Joel Jaeggli <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 03/17/2010 09:18 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >>> > Absolutely. But Americans don't expect this kind of stuff to make >>> > sense, because they're used to having a different way of measuring >>> > everything, while in the rest of the world we're used to the metric >>> > system so we assume things make sense. So an American wouldn't >>> > necessarily consider yyyy-dd-mm inconceivable while people from >>> > elsewhere probably would and just assume yyyy-mm-dd. >>> >>> I think you're generalizing to some potentially non-existant superset of >>> a population that may or may not read internet drafts. I'm really not >>> sure that's relevant. >>> >>> A group in my organization (based in the uk no less) was just hosed by a >>> windows api that represents months using their spelling and is therefore >>> locale dependant, I'd rather prefer rfc-3339, somehow rather than >>> worrying that the report for the month of февраль din't get generated. >>> >>> > >
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