On 4-10-2011 14:09, clipka wrote:
> Am 04.10.2011 11:51, schrieb Invisible:
>> On 04/10/2011 10:47 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>>> Le 03/10/2011 22:11, Alain a écrit :
>>>> I always wonder WHY the USA kept that colonial mesurment system.
>>>
>>> The "Not made here" syndrom.
>>> USA is proud of its own system.
>>
>> Ah. Is /that/ why they're the only country on Earth who can't write the
>> date in any consistent order?
>
>  From a rational point of view, the widespread day-month-year ordering
> is only marginally more consistent than the american month-day-year
> ordering.
>
> The only truly consistent ordering is the still uncommon ISO
> year-month-date ordering ("2011-10-04"): Digits are listed in order of
> descending significance (big-endian) throughout.

correct me if I am but I seem to remember that this is japanese style.

>
> Little-endian throughout ("40-01-1102") would be just as consistent in
> itself, but inconsistent with traditional numerical notation.


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