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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: :-) A Brand-New Language! :-) Date: 2000/04/24 Message-ID: <390476E6.904B0D3D@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 615030002 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38e56e47@excalibur.gbmtech.net> <38E636F9.D15710EA@quadruscorp.com> <38E638A4.D86E0725@quadruscorp.com> <38E7924F.FD170A14@quadruscorp.com> <8c8016$iqk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8c9saa$j79$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38e8ab71$1@excalibur.gbmtech.net> <8cai6u$bf6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E8E738.45EE0CD5@hello.nl> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 956593949 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:32:29 EDT) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:32:29 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > Computer people always like to try to change common > > usage in this way, but it won't work. The full > > form > > > > April 3, 2000 > > > > is still perfectly clear, and is actually the most > > common usage in many countries. I do not think you > > are about to change that :-) > > Name, say, three countries not being anglosaxon that use this format. Genealogists (including those in the U.S.) and military (including those in the U.S.) prefer 3 April 2000, as do folks in any non-English country I've dealt with--even Mexico. Given this fact, I find it incredible that Lotus Notes has rather spectacular and confusing failures when the _O.S._ is told to put dates in European format. > > The US 4/3/2000 is simply to be understood as short > > hand for this longer form. > > It is ambiguous in almost every continental European country I know. Furthermore, when hand-written, it is easy for a hasty reader to confuse '/' and '1'