digital camera Q

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 11:59:54 UTC 2006


On 25/10/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 05:07, Edward Dekkers wrote:

> > P.S. Don't even get me started on the US having the month then day then
> > year for displaying dates. I don't get that either but caused quite a
> > bit of confusion when we were over there.
>
> Until you want to sort by date order, then year, month, day makes sense.
>

Year month day makes sense[1], except that what they
appear to do (as far as I can tell from what happens when
I have to work on a computer with US locale), is
month year day. Why?

[1] And can be sorted easily by silly computers, which is why it's
    an ISO standard, rather than the more user friendly day month
    year.

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imalone




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