March topic(s) for BLU

[mattboston at gmail.com (Matt Shields)]

That's true, but that's how computer people think.  I do that as well
when I program.  But that's not how most people speak, at least here
in the US especially when talking about (not programming) dates.

matt

On 3/2/07, Kristian Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Matt Shields <mattboston at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To Americans day/month sounds backwords, when we're talking about
> > dates we say March 21st.  If you write that out it would be 3/21/2007.
> >  But if you're not in the US, does it really matter?  Do you plan on
> > coming here for that meeting?  I understand there are lots of people
> > not in the Boston area on this list because it's a good list for the
> > Linux community, but why do you care that the meeting is on 3/21 or
> > 21/3?  If I were to join a UK mailing list I wouldn't demand that they
> > follow US date standards.
>
> It gets confusing when you say things like '...the meeting will be
> 11/10'.  Is that November 10 or October 11th?  You can never get it
> wrong when you use a standard mathematical notation where most
> significant digit is to the left as in 20071011, which makes more
> sense.  It's always best to put your most significant digits first.
> Think about the nightmare of a directory listing on your OS if you
> didn't use this method and your filenames were ordered by date...
> --
> Kristian Hermansen
>

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