March topic(s) for BLU

[doctormo at gmail.com (Martin Owens)]

Indeed; it isn't a us vs yous fight I want here. In the uk we would
say 21st March 2007 and thus shortened to 21/03/2007; but I wouldn't
use that date form here because it's ambiguous  to us people. instead
the iso date format allows dates to be read by anyone in the world
including mathematicians.

Surly we all want that?

On 02/03/07, Kristian Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Matt Shields <mattboston at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To Americans day/month sounds backwords, when we're talking about
> > dates we say March 21st.  If you write that out it would be 3/21/2007.
> >  But if you're not in the US, does it really matter?  Do you plan on
> > coming here for that meeting?  I understand there are lots of people
> > not in the Boston area on this list because it's a good list for the
> > Linux community, but why do you care that the meeting is on 3/21 or
> > 21/3?  If I were to join a UK mailing list I wouldn't demand that they
> > follow US date standards.
>
> It gets confusing when you say things like '...the meeting will be
> 11/10'.  Is that November 10 or October 11th?  You can never get it
> wrong when you use a standard mathematical notation where most
> significant digit is to the left as in 20071011, which makes more
> sense.  It's always best to put your most significant digits first.
> Think about the nightmare of a directory listing on your OS if you
> didn't use this method and your filenames were ordered by date...
> --
> Kristian Hermansen
>

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