Re: [OT] Re: David S Wiener is out of the office.

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On Dec 2, 2007 5:55 PM, Martin Marques <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Karl Larsen escribió:
> > Peter Gordon wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 10:56 -0800, Brian Mury wrote:
> >>
> >>> I doubt it - that's in the future. Different parts of the world have
> >>> different conventions for the order of the day and month. 12/06/2007 may
> >>> mean 12 June to you, but it means 6 December to the OP.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Why can't we all just follow ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) and be done with it?
> >> =)
> >>
> >    Because it was "not invented here". I have no idea why the USA uses
> > mounth-day-year but we  have done so all my working life. I did see
> > things from Europe with the year-month-day and was not confused. But it
> > can be.
>
> Maybe because you say "December the third" will in other languages it
> "three of December" (in spanish at least).

Ah, if only it were that simple.  Sometimes its month-day, other times
its day-month.  Classic example being the film "Born on the 4th of
July".

See, sometimes we are consistent with the rest of the world.

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