Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[Piers Cawley]

Andrew Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In Iceland they append 'son' for sons and 'dottir' for daughters -
> hence Magnus Magnusson is the son of Magnus, whilst Sally Magnusson
> would, in Iceland at least, be Sally Magnusdottir.

I used to work with an Icelandic chap who told me that the Rekjavik
phonebook is ordered by first name because they still use proper
patronyms. 

-- 
Piers