From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,edad7a168517ff4e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: G Subject: Re: :-) A Brand-New Language! :-) Date: 2000/04/02 Message-ID: <38E70899.393068E6@interact.net.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 605579440 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38e56e47@excalibur.gbmtech.net> <38E636F9.D15710EA@quadruscorp.com> <38E638A4.D86E0725@quadruscorp.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@asiaonline.net X-Trace: news.interact.net.au 954665225 203.24.148.91 (Sun, 02 Apr 2000 18:47:05 EST) Organization: ... X-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 18:47:05 EST (news.interact.net.au) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 18:47:05 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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*