In a message dated Wed, 14 Feb 2001 9:52:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: << ----- Original Message ----- From: "jpcarette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2001-02-14 09:39 Subject: Re: Well, damn it, NASA ought to be metr [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] > No problem in any country in Europe and most probably in the world. You can also see it from the Windows Regional setting. Note that to start with the year is logical as it is like the way we write or say numbers, the high order digits are always on the left. > 1022 is one thousand twenty two (but in Dutch it would be een duizend twee en twentig, so here it is illogical. Same for German). Gee computers will never replace men, no machine can match this kind of behavior !!! > Well, no more so than the French, where 96 = four twenties plus sixteen. cm
