Diesel Damo <Diesel_4WD@[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.
Funny you mention that. Also known as "Japanese notation", that is my
preferred method of file naming...
Makes sorting files by name far more useful if used as a prefix on the
file names... Ditto sorting directories by naming by financial year
then quarter, etc..
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Athol
<http://cust.idl.com.au/athol>
Linux Registered User # 254000
I'm a Libran Engineer. I don't argue, I discuss.
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