On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 13:31, Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote:

> The problem with that is the same problem as allowing every language on the 
> planet to
> use their own abbreviations for month names.  Only worse.
>
> For better or worse, we standardized on three-letter abbreviations for 
> English month names.
> opening_hours to keep things simple and to prevent a problem in one affecting 
> all of them.

If only there was some sort of ISO standard for representing dates...

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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