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[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Basil Chupin said the following on 02/18/2010 12:33 AM:
> But then, of course, there would not be a problem if the Americans stuck
> with the British way of showing dates......

Its not as simple as that.

If it were simply Big-endian  (2009-12-31)  vs Little-endian
(31-12-2009) that would be one thing - British vs Japanese.

But its not.  The Americans do an "out of order" or "middle-endian"

So of course the Americans invented the PDP-11 and the VAX
See http://unixpapa.com/incnote/byteorder.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
There's even a RFC about it!
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt
and
    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1014.html


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