On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:59:29 -0500
Felix Miata
On 2012/01/21 17:44 (GMT-0600) Rajko M. composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
The question remains why devs so infrequently use ISO dating and seem to prefer little endianness, which is not capable of being simply sorted like [YYYY]MMDD[HH[MM[SS]]] is.
In some countries, including Germany, it is used DD.MM.[YY[YY].] , just as it is used MM/DD/YY[YY] or MM-DD-YY[YY], in US, and no one has a problem with that; well,
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at least those that are not exposed a bit to one then the other.
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Well, duh, which is precisely the reason why I posted....
You may imagine that no one is used to [YYYY]MMDD[HH[MM[SS]]], it always requires mental effort to write and read such date.
So, little endianness is not someones invention, but common way to write date in some regions of the world.
International mailing lists and other software development forums and tools are not single region, but worldwide, and I've been witnessing the confusion regional variation causes in these places since before Y2K. It's not as bad when four digit years are used, but isn't it better to have most conforming to a simple standard? ISO came up with a perfectly rational (& numerically perfect) recommendation, and none I'm aware of have shown any better suggestions. Why is it people writing where such confusion abounds can't adopt that recommendation at least for their international audiences?
Hi Felix and all others; People as a group are not willing to give up their habits and ways. "If it was okay in the past it's okay for the present and future" is the attitude. Yes, it takes a finite amount of time and effort to change our ways but the rewards can be worth it. As pointed out earlier, sorting is much simpler using the ISO date standard and becomes second nature after a short while. It would avoid ambiguity when peoples communicate between different regions/countries. Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 openSUSE 12.1 KDE 4.6.00, FF 4.0 KDE 4.7.2, FF 8.0 claws-mail 3.7.9 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org