Re: :-) A Brand-New Language! :-)

[G <gmw@interact.net.au>]

Dale Stanbrough wrote:

> Keith Thompson wrote:
>
> > You mean 2000-04-01?  (See ISO-8601.)
>
> It's a good thing the Roman Empire wasn't using ISO-8601 in the
> years 1..31 AD! (Mind you, this could be a problem for historians).
>
> (what? is this off topic? :-)
>
> Dale

Mind you - it's only the Americans (AFAIK) who put the month before the
day like that, 4/1/00, whereas here in Australia we use the British
(European?)
form of Day/Month/Year... which seems to make so much more sense in
terms on linear
continuity, or progressive scale-increments... I have noticed that in a
book on Assembler
that when dates were packed as records they were packed as
month/day/year which obviously doesn't matter but is just a *chortle*
fine example of American Techno-Imperialism... like HTML COLOR argh - I
mean... COLOUR thankyou very much... but that doesn't work...
*sigh*


G.
*an off-topic bullseye awaiting a flame-thrower*