Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:40:28 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@hilink.com.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/9500: `edithook' is not Y2K compliant Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990115173619.18735A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990116091834.17266B-100000@enya.clari.net.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > Yes. What is your foundation for the new format? Perhaps this is just my > > American citizenship coming through, but mm/dd/yyyy is the way most people > > read dates. > > I'd like a definition of "most people", please. The only places where > mm/dd/yy is a valid date format are USA (260m), USA dependencies (.5m) and > confused Canadians ( some fraction of 26m). So your assertion becomes > that 286.5 million people is "most people". The rest of the English > speaking world, other parts of the British Commonwealth, European and > Hispanic worlds use either dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd. Japan uses yyyy/mm/dd; I > like to know how the Chinese write dates. I'd like to point on the 'perhaps this is...' in my statment, I wasn't trying to start a holy war. I'll also point out the people you mentioned are our most represented users, if not the majority. Either way is fine, I'm just wondering why you're using an obscure format, and I guess the answer is "it shows we're not biased towards one format". > yyyy/mm/dd is not my personal way of reading dates, but at least it is > unambiguous. (except for the Japenese users) - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.990115173619.18735A-100000>