Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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 
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".

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind if this worked, because the ISO way is 
actually the standard way in Sweden, so for me it would be easy :)

But it just won't ever work, without a massive amount of marketing and 
education, which is obviously way beyond the means of a mailing list. You 
have a much easier time getting Americans and Brits to use decimal measuring 
systems (which can (and will eventually) happen, but not without confusion 
and airplane accidents)