"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.

	This sounds almost insulting to the universe in general. 

	Any rational person writes YYMMDD so tha core sorting routines
can be used. 

	Tougne out of cheek. 

	Is that a good enough answer?

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