Re: Re: Re: Perl 6 release date

[diotalevi]

in reply to Re: Re: Perl 6 release date
in thread Perl 6 release date

I can't speak for others but I always thought y'all Europeans were wacky for doing YYYYMMDD. Or at least it induces headaches when I'm working with people in the UK. Of course, my perception of date-wackiness is entirely contextual - it's US-standard form to write our days before months. If someone knows where that came from that'd would be interesting to know.

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[sauoq]

I always thought y'all Europeans were wacky for doing YYYYMMDD.

We Americans do it that way too. There is a good reason for it. It sorts correctly.

Don't confuse this with the normal written formats. In the U.S. we write mm/dd/yyyy but in Europe they write it as dd/mm/yyyy which does seem to make some sense in a least-significant to most-significant sort of way.

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