Garth Wallace wrote:
> Glenn Miller wrote:
> 
>> On 22 Mar 2002, Jay Garcia was seen to have posted this wee note into 
>> netscape.public.mozilla.general, to which I have responded as follows:
>>
>>
>>> The build date is 03-14-2002 but that doesn't mean that it's using the
>>> 0.9.9 Gecko engine.
>>
>>
>>
>> I didn't know that there was a 14th month!
>>
>> Why not use the standard date of day/month/year - instead of some 
>> cockeyed arrangement with the day after the month but before the year.
> 
> 
> "Standard date of day/month/year"? Huh?
> 
> Are you British?
> 

Least significant to most significant, or most significant to least 
significant does seem to be pretty much a standard. I've never really
understood the logic behind the US format.

It's not as you do "mm:ss:hh" or "mm:hh:ss" for time. Just one of those 
quirks of history I guess.

ian.


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