On Friday, January 20, 2012 12:18:50 PM Felix Miata wrote:
The question remains why devs so infrequently use ISO dating and seem to prefer little endianness, which is not capable of being simply sorted like [YYYY]MMDD[HH[MM[SS]]] is.
In some countries, including Germany, it is used DD.MM.[YY[YY].] , just as it is used MM/DD/YY[YY] or MM-DD-YY[YY], in US, and no one has a problem with that; well, at least those that are not exposed a bit to one then the other. You may imagine that no one is used to [YYYY]MMDD[HH[MM[SS]]], it always requires mental effort to write and read such date. So, little endianness is not someones invention, but common way to write date in some regions of the world. The only problem that confused me too is missing end dot in 9.2 (I expected 9.2. as in 9th of February) which might not be required by German rules, but it is in some other regions as it signifies ordered numbers, like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ie. respective 1., 2., 3., 4. etc, in contrast to 1,2,3,4 as in quantity. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org