On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:31 PM, David Krings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > csnyder wrote: > > Or the MySQL date, 2008-03-02. Again, the month-day order throws > > non-US, non-engineers off. > > I don't think that it has to do with being and engineer or not. Not meaning > it > personal, but writing month/day/year is just suboptimal. I really wonder > where > that comes from. >
I bet there's a Wikipedia article with the answer. We've been putting the month first since at least the Declaration of Independence: "In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776" -- Chris Snyder http://chxo.com/ _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
