Alberto Monteiro wrote:
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.
There's not really any such thing as 12PM -- 12:01PM, yes, but 12:00 is
NOON. PM is "post meridian" which means "after noon". How can you be
noon AND after noon at the same time? :)
(I think the 24-hour clock makes more sense.)
Julia
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