On 3 January 2014 05:42, Kent A. Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> A case in point is RFC 2822 which defines the headers of the > email we are exchanging. It defines a date as "day month year". This > isn't surprising since many early Internet RFCs codified the prevailing > practices here in the USA, and it's hard to change the practice once > there are millions of mail agent programs in place. Surely DD-MM-YY is not US conventional practice at all. Don't you use the illogical-no-matter-how-you-consider-it MM-DD-YY ? > > Representation of decimal numbers is a mess. The British Standard for technical drawings uses a comma. But nowhere else is this used, and I have rarely seen it used on technical drawings either. > When I was still bright eyed and bushy tailed I thought "how hard can > developing these standards be? I think I may have posted this before: http://xkcd.com/927/ -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
