AFAIK, ISO 8601 is the Swedish notation. And in order of textual sorting, it is the far most logic notification. But I agree that mdy is far less logic than dmy or ymd.
Met vriendelijke groeten, Cordialement, Regards, *DRIES FEYS* *CORPORATE SERVICES* • *Senior Software Engineer* <http://www.tvh.com> On 26 July 2012 12:34, Joep L. Blom <jlb...@neuroweave.nl> wrote: > On 25-07-12 20:49, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > >> 2012/7/25 anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com>: >> > > > >>>>>>> I resent the US way of ISO 8601. We Dutch and other Europeans use >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> >>>>>>> more logical sequence of day-month-year instead of the illogical >>>>>> year-month-day.(most important first, least important last: very often >>>>>> the >>>>>> year can be missed). >>>>>> Joep >>>>>> >>>>>> > >> Exactly what is strange with ISO 8601? >> >> > > Jonny, > As I said before it's illogic. In my view in a date the least significant > (fastest changing) part is the day so it's logical to put it in front. > In the over 2000 years date notation systems are used all logical and > illogical combinations have been used. > The reason I find that the current European (Dutch, Swedish) notation is > more logical than the ISO 8601 is that in many cases the year notation is > omitted which is in the European notation self-explaining but in the ISO > 8601 less intuitive. > However, it's my personal feeling and don't forget: international rules > aren't always right! :) > > Joep > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.** > org <users%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- DISCLAIMER **** http://www.tvh.com/newen2/emaildisclaimer/default.html "This message is delivered to all addressees subject to the conditions set forth in the attached disclaimer, which is an integral part of this message." -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
