On 25-07-12 20:49, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
2012/7/25 anne-ology <[email protected]>:
I resent the US way of ISO 8601. We Dutch and other Europeans use the
more logical sequence of day-month-year instead of the illogical
year-month-day.(most important first, least important last: very often
the
year can be missed).
Joep
Exactly what is strange with ISO 8601?
Jonny,
As I said before it's illogic. In my view in a date the least
significant (fastest changing) part is the day so it's logical to put it
in front.
In the over 2000 years date notation systems are used all logical and
illogical combinations have been used.
The reason I find that the current European (Dutch, Swedish) notation is
more logical than the ISO 8601 is that in many cases the year notation
is omitted which is in the European notation self-explaining but in the
ISO 8601 less intuitive.
However, it's my personal feeling and don't forget: international rules
aren't always right! :)
Joep
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