Re: Date formats
- From: tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tony Mountifield)
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:32:33 +0000 (UTC)
In article <3sd2ukFnr3l7U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Einde O'Callaghan <einde.ocallaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Frank Erskine wrote:
>
> > Is there a proper standard for the layout of dates?
> > It seems that the 'standard' used in the US is, for example
> > "October 27, 2005", hence the expression "9/11", whereas in the UK
> > it's usually "27 October, 2005".
> > To me the "US" version seems illogical - it's rather like writing
> > numbers as Tens, Hundreds and Units.
I agree. I loathe mm/dd/yy representation. However, dd/mm/yy (which I do
use) isn't consistent with hh:mm:ss either. If naming files and folders,
I usually use yyyy-mm-dd so that they sort in date order.
> Who ever said that language had anything to do with logic? In Germans,
> for example, three-figure numbers are expressed as Hundreds, Units and Tens.
That's only the way they are expressed in speech or in text. They don't
write "hundert-vier-und-neunzig" as 149.
Cheers
Tony
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