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.



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