Re: David Grudek/COR/AXE is out of the office.
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:39:16AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:50:16 +0000, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:57:42 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> >> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 the mental interface of
> >> David.Grudek@anixter.com told:
> >>> I will be out of the office starting 12/26/2003 and will not
> >>> return until 01/04/2004.
> >>
> >> He must feel very lucky being off for 3 months (payed ?)
> >
> > I believe the Americans do it backwards... 1/04/2004 being
> > January 4th rather than 1st of April :-).
>
> Who's doing it backwards depends, I guess, on your point of view.
Both "4th January 2004" and "January 4th 2004" are clear; "2004/01/04"
is clear, and sorts well; "04/01/2004" is sadly ambiguous due to the
prevalence of the US date format but at least has the benefit of being
in a rational order (i.e. not middle-endian). "01/04/2004" just has
nothing to recommend it at all.
I guess it's a religious war, but for once the superior options seem
technically obvious.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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