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)