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.

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

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