On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:49:27AM -0800, Doug Ewell wrote: > > Locale systems that force you to pick one immutable set of conventions > for a given country are broken in general. I remember having to tell > MS-DOS that I was in South Africa or someplace, just to get my directory > listing the way I wanted it. *nix systems that start with "fr_FR" and > then allow you to define "fr_FR-EURO" or something really aren't much > better; what if I want to deviate from the pre-defined locale in four or > five ways instead of just one?
You have to pick one, Doug. You cannot write "On the 3/1/02 2002-03-01 1/3/02 1/3/2002 1.3.2002 I went to..." Or you can write it but weiting the same date in 5 different formats in the same line is not customary and superflous. Kind regards keld
