2002-02-20 10:32:02, "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:12:58 > Duncan Bath wrote: >... >>>To night we will get, for a minute, a rare "palindrome" : we will >>>write time and date as 20 02 20 02 2002 (i.e. 20H 02, 20 February >>>2002) or 200220022002, which can be read in both directions. >> >>Not a real palindrome either. >> >>1. It is based on an ad hoc date form >>2. It relies on an illogical combination of the date and time. >>... >We've been through this before, Duncan. Please, stop saying that dd-mm-yyyy is >'illogical', will ya? While we had both agreed that yyyy-mm-dd would be more in >line with how we state values overall, there IS logic behind using the opposite >format (from small to big, remember?...).
No, it's still middle-endian. Otoh, writing 2004-10-08 as "80-01-4002" would be perfectly logical. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
