On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 10:31 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri April 2 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Just to be pedantic, what you call the "European" format is actually the
> > "everywhere else in the world except the US" format :-)
> >
> Yep. Just like on another list I'm on we got to talking about the
> differences between UK English and American English. We Yanks just *have* to
> be different. :-)
Not quite the same thing. UK and US English are different in some
respects ("two countries divided by the same language") but at least
it's clear that we're talking about specific regions and their
peculiarities (not to mention the local differences even within those
regions) so we can all make allowances. In the case of date formats,
it's the US versus everyone else and it actually does lead to ambiguity
in some cases.
[In some ways I'm reminded of when the UK was the only country in the
world to have a non-decimal currency, which wasn't that long ago -- I'm
old enough to remember the switchover.]
Not that I expect this to change of course.
poc
