-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-03-03 at 16:05 -0000, peter nikolic wrote:
DD/MM/YYYY the best all round soloution ..
No, the best is following the ISO standard. That's what they are for, standards.
Not Realy .
The ISO standard of YYYY/MM/DD is not the most efficent way of using a date
example " you want to know the date you look at the ISO standard date you have to wade thru the year the month to find the day date normally the most used part of the date string whereas DD/MM/YYYY the important bit is right at th front of the string DD then you can read the rest if you need it ..
It is not efficient for you because it is not what you are used to. But, being a standard, it avoids confusion, specially in international conversations. It is in fact very efficient, because the most significant number is always written at the left, and the least at the right - therefore years must go to the left, then month, then day. It is the logical way. A bunch of dates can be sorted just by alphabetical sort, like in a directory listing. And no, it is not the way I grew up which, nor my country use. It feels strange, but it is the standard, so I use it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF6cIotTMYHG2NR9URAs1HAJwMZesA4f/WGKEa3fgBHHihhsgtpgCeKQ/Z 0lqCA8/5agIQxoir93ipFlo= =0E9M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org