On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 18:52 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: > Why dont we forget the ISO naming and just stick with something that is > Human-readable? ;)
The from big to small order is really not difficult to remember and handle. But currently I have my head elsewhere. > Instead, for months we use "Jan/Feb/Mar.../Dec" . And yrs/dates are > numerical YYYY/DD? Numerical dates are short and make calculations more obvious (or am I alone in having to translate month names to numbers in my mind first, where I don't have a direct mapping for all months, so need to count steps in some cases?) And then we would have the question which format using names, exactly? -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
