Steve Sloan wrote: > > I'll grant you that doing day-month-year dates makes more > sense than what we do, but only slightly. Day-month-year is > still stupid, because it makes more sense for the highest-order > to be first, so it should really be year-month-day. That way, > you can sort on a computer much more easily, and it just makes > more sense in general. > That's the ISO standard. AFAIK, only Japanese use it regularly.
> It bugs me almost as much as my alarm clock, which turns a > little LED on in the display to denote AM. It would make > *much* more sense for PM to be the high bit, if you have > to use 12-hour time at all. > AM/PM is another weird way to express time. Why does 12 PM follow 11 AM? It makes no sense. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
