Am 03.01.2014 15:07, schrieb Gene Heskett:
> 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.

Don't say nowhere else! It is used in Germany as standard!

>>
>>> 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


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