Hi Michael, *; <sigh> - toppost with fullquote :-( </sigh>
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Michael Wheatland <mich...@wheatland.com.au> wrote: > How is DD/MM/YYYY a confusing format? I explained. let's see what I wrote: > [] >> It's not the wrong date, it just uses a bad/confusing format >> (DD/MM/YYYY) so it mixes german/european ordering with US/american >> delimiter. Today it should b e clear, as not it defaults to 13/11/2011 > The vast majority of the world > uses this format including the delimiter. No - the ordering is used, but not with the / as delimiter. While some countries use it like that, it definitely is not "the vast majority of the world" Focus on my statement was "mixing with / as delimiter", not using day, month year ordering. > It doesn't mix any formats. The format and delimiter IS the standard. > P.S. It's not German ordering. See the wikipedia article on the origins. Of course it mixes formats and hence is confusing. If it would use YYYY-MM-DD it would be clear, also if it would use DD.MM.YYYY it would be clear. But using / is what makes stuff confusing as it is both used in DD/MM/YYYY as well as in MM/DD/YYYY formats. so again. Please don't top-post, don't full-quote. ciao Christian -- E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
