On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:23:48AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:55:54PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Baruch Even wrote:
> >
> > > Just to end this thread, the format is now 2001-08-32
> >
> > Someone added an extra day to August!
> > Now all my calenders are wrong!
> > I'll have to reprogram all my clocks and watches!
>
> Not really. You just have to convert from Baruch's base 9 (which is the
> only possible interpretation given the occurence of the digit '8') to
> everybody else's base 10.
>
> Which would mean that Columbus will cross the Atlantic in about 33 years,
> of course.
>
> And that, in turn, means that the whole discussion English vs American
> pretty senseless for a while...
>
I thought this was ISO vs American discussion.
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