On May 13, 10:03 am, Diesel Damo <Diesel_...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 13, 9:14 am, Saab C900 Viggenist <c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> > Here in Australia too - 'gas' is LPG/CNG. Americans have a
> > screwy idea of what to call their hydrocarbon fuels. Seems
> > like it's all 'hot air'. 8-)
>
> I was chatting to a bunch of yanks on another forum the other day and
> our dd-mm-yyyy date format drew a comment of "dude, that's ****ed up".
> He went on to say "Ours is better because it's like May, the 6th day,
> and 2008".
>
> He didn't have much of a comeback when I asked why they don't apply
> that superior thinking to the time format: HH:SS:MM. "Wake up! It's
> 9:00:55 FFS!" ;-)
>
> Besides, I'm a computer nerd so I prefer yyyy-mm-dd anyway.
Hmmm, don't get me started on time date formats.
I'll always write a date on a form I sign by hand to be
May 13, 2008 for example. My preffered 'puter
format is:
13-MAY-2008 10:48
That's because I like a certain 'puter OS (actually
from the US) that works that way.
For sorting reasons you are correct as long as the
year stays four, not two digits.
I don't like the concept of numbering months,
I'll never write a month as a digit - you can't do that
as 12/1 or 1/12 are two very different things.
So, hapi May, 13, 2008 :-)
Concepts as 9/11 I'll refer to as such - it's not a
date, it is an event.
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