Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (368 mails)

[Thomas Taylor <linxt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:15:28 -0500
Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [01-21-12 19:10]:
> > On 21/01/12 20:44, Rajko M. wrote:
> > > On Friday, January 20, 2012 12:18:50 PM 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,
> >
> > And all south and central america, probably most countries in the EU
> > as well..
> >
> > Why we are discussing time and date formats here is a better question
> > though :-)
>
> Because they can; there is no moderator and perhaps it is time to have
> one.

I've been exposed to both and used both.  Only took a little thought to figure
out the dates.  Perhaps to avoid this situation use spelled out month (i.e. 9
Feb), then there would be no ambiguity.

Tom

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