On Friday 03 January 2014 09:05:21 andy pugh did opine: > 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/
And that takes us full circle, back to the statement that standards are nice, there are so many to choose from. :) Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> The Marines: The few, the proud, the not very bright. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
