Hi! On 11/9/06, Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> 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.