And the arrangement of dates? Don't even get me started...Where's the
logic of having month, day, year sequence???
Only the U.S. does that, the rest of us do day, month, year.
I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the
custom (along with many others).
Not
I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the
custom (along with many others). When I was growing up, the dates were
not only written in the day, month, year sequence (the logical
progression from the smallest to the largest unit), but the month was
written in
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:19:06AM -0700, Lorri Ferguson wrote:
I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the
custom (along with many others).
I've never heard the month/day/year version before coming to the US, so
no.
Sometime after I left, the month began to
On May 29, 2004, at 12:19, Lorri Ferguson wrote:
Tamara,
How was it arranged when spoken?
We say 'May 28, 2004', would you have said '28th of May, 2004?
Dwudziestego osmego maja, dwa tysiace cztery (or: dwa tysiace czwartego
roku), Lorri Ferguson napisala (on the 28th of May, two thousand and
On May 28, 2004, at 0:52, Margot Walker wrote:
And the arrangement of dates? Don't even get me started...Where's the
logic of having month, day, year sequence???
Only the U.S. does that, the rest of us do day, month, year.
I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the
Except some international protocols which do year month day. The
library I worked in, in Australia used this date protocol, and we
submitted data to an OECD database, and had to use that format, so
everthing was done in that order. After 6 1/2 years of it, I got into
the habit, until I came here
