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

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <38e8ab71$1@excalibur.gbmtech.net>,
  "John Herro" <john@prousa.net> wrote:
> but I think 2000-April-01 or 2000-Apr-01 is
> just as unambiguous and easier to read.


Yes, and Esperanto is easier to read than English :-)

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 :-)

The US 4/3/2000 is simply to be understood as short
hand for this longer form.

As always, the format is not that critical, like
endianness, it is the lack of a common standard that
causes trouble.

By the way, the idiot customs department in the US
uses the European style for dates. naturally most
americans fill out the form wrong :-)


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