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.