• MH (unregistered) in reply to Markp

    I see I'm not the only UW grad :-)

  • Valczir (unregistered) in reply to FuBar
    FuBar:
    da Doctah:
    It's not as WTF as those deranged systems where the day comes before the month.
    Deranged?? Excuse me, but what makes sense is either least-significant to most-significant or vice versa, i.e. 05-JUN-2010 or 2010-JUN-05. What's deranged is 6/5/10, which messes up the order of significance. Who thought that one up??

    All I can say is QFT. I live in America (which seems to be where MM/DD/YYYY is most prominent) and it confuses the friggin' sanity out of me. I think greatest to least (YYYY-MM-DD) makes the most sense, but least to greatest (DD-MM-YYYY) is a whole lot better than middle to least to greatest (MM-DD-YYYY). What would happen if we ordered our books like that?

    Mom: "Hold on, kids, I have to find the beginning." Kid: "Mommy, why didn't they put the beginning near the cover?" Mom: "That's just how things are done, dear. It's not our place to question those smarter than us."

    ... Crap, now I want to write a book in that way and title it "In honor of the MM/DD/YYYY Format". It'd never get published, but it would amuse me for a while.

    captcha: venio -- The input/output library used to read lists ordered like that date format?

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