"Edward C." wrote:
> 
> How does one write the date in POV source files?  DD/MM/YY, or that
> inexplicable style MM/DD/YY?
> I can see the logic to the first style, it follows a clear order, but the
> second?  Thankfully, I can't recall any modern nation that uses
> it.....there's some country between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, but
> last I heard, they hadn't even adopted the metric system!  :-P
> BTW: It has been mentioned before on this server, that to use two different
> styles of English (i.e. English and American) in one publication is very
> poor style indeed.  Not only does the parser allow for this kind of nonsense
> (why it is bi-lingual I will never know), but the source is full of it.  No,
> it doesn't really matter, it's just a little unfortunate.

 The US uses an alpha numeric form of date designation. In long form it
would appear as:

 Dec. 1 1999 (12/01/99)

  as opposed to

 1 Dec. 1999 (01/12/99)

as you seem to be comfortable with. I personaly find the US version logical
and cannot imagine why anyone would want to do it differently. After all if
it is good enough for the people of the US it should be good enough for the
rest of the people on this planet.

 As to the rest of your language rants I am not even going to touch that
as it is an overly discussed topic that has been fairly well resolved to
everyone else's satisfaction.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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