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 -- "Writing good documentation is hard. It's much harder than writing code." -- Chris McDonough, ZopeMag Interview July 2003 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org