On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:11:54 Daniel Bishop wrote: >2002-02-20 10:32:02, "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >>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. > ??? Not so, please see below.
>Otoh, writing 2004-10-08 as "80-01-4002" would be perfectly logical. >... With all due respect, Daniel, but you seem to have forgotten that date is NOT a continuous counting concept! In other words, day, month and year are separate time entities. Therefore, it DOES make sense to treat them from smallest to largest "scale". I.e. that it would be just as logical to do so. The day we fix time so that no matter what period we're talking about one would *count* it as some yyyy.mmddhhmm... etc, then you'll be able to throw the above at me, but not before! ;-) Marcus Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
