RHD is the scourge of the POMS (Prisoners of Mother England)!
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From: "Frits J. W�thrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:32 PM
Subject: RE: Asahi vs Honeywell.
> > Anyway, I think driving on the left is an island nation thing.
> > Didn't the
> > rest of the EU change to right hand side some 25 years ago?
> No. I think only Sweden changed quite a long time ago, the rest always
drove
> on the correct (=right) side of the road.
> >
> > For Colour and Plough, we are not required to use extra letters
> > here.
> Makes sense.
> >
> > And finally, get the date thing right. 19/8/01 would be the 19th
> > month, 8th
> > day of 2001 in our system. We write 8/19/01 and you use
> > 2001/08/19 because
> > we know what year it is. That number changes only once every 365
> > days, so
> > why start out with it. It's much more economical to say August
> > 19th or 8/19
> > first.
> Well, this is not quite so. Mostly in Europe it is 19/8/01 which is used,
> according to an ISO standard it is 20010819, and in the USA 8/19/01.
> The ISO standard makes sense because it has the least significant number
on
> the right, just as most other numbers. In day to day life it start with
the
> day as the least significant, which is another choice. In the USA the
least
> significant part is in the middle, which doesn't makes sense at all. I
work
> for a global company, and the date format is often a problem. I prefer
> 19-Aug-2001 so that it is clear what the meaning is. It is also one of the
> formats standard built in to Windows.
>
> Frits
>
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