Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[HG <hg.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

On 11/9/06, Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 November 2006 21:53, HG wrote:
> > But I do get what you are saying. Except that I believe you are wrong.
> > If we were to agree that the standard virtually anything else, then it
> > would be confusing.
>
> This sentence is confusing. There seems to be words missing

Heh, yes there are... but not that many 8-)

> In any case, the problem is that there are an incredible number of people who
> grew up thinking mm/dd was the only way of giving a date, and another
> incredible number of people who learned dd/mm was the only way, and they have

Where do they all write the year? You left that out. I think that you
are actually saying that people will confuse mm/dd/yy with dd/mm/yy or
mm.dd.yy (is that even used?) and dd.mm.yy. And the same with
mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy (as with the dots). Right?
My point: none of those resemble ISO at all. ISO is not going to be
confused with those.

> all been doing it just about every day of their entire lives. You cannot come
> along and say "ok, we will now all do it the ISO way".

Sure we can! ;-)

--
HG.