- From: Christopher Evans <christopher@cechinatrans.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:05:03 -0000
- To: Christian Ræbild <craebild@parknet.dk>, www-amaya@w3.org
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:12:06 -0000, Christian Ræbild <craebild@parknet.dk> wrote: > On 18-02-2006 03:23, Kade Hansson wrote: > >> >> Lars Bruzelius wrote: >> >>> 17-02-2006 which is incorrect. In this case Amaya should pick up the >>> preferred format from the system preferences, i.e. in this case >>> yyyy-mm-dd. Why the Amaya team chose the dd-mm-yyyy format for the >>> non-ISO 8601 format is beyond me. >> >> I believe it is because CVS (a commonly used version control system) >> uses this format for its date stamps. >> >> The ISO format feature was added because (naturally) some people don't >> use CVS, and they wanted a more "useful" format. (I would argue that >> both ways are equally useful, it's just that Americans and the Japanese >> prefer to mix things up. Their prerogative, I suppose.) >> >> Archer >> >> End. >> >> >> > I don't know about the japanese, but the common US date format is > MM-DD-YYYY, which does not match either of the formats used by Amaya. > > Most or all european countries use the date format DD-MM-YYYY, so that > might be why the Amaya developers (and the developers of CVS) chose that > format. Some of the Amaya developers are from europe, after all. > I don't know whether it's of much interest but for centuries the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans have used a "big-to-small" system not only for dates but for addresses and names, so reign period or cyclical YY (now YYYY in China and Korea, but Japan retains the period + YY for some purposes) (M)M > (D)D, City > district > street > ... > ..., and surname > personal name. Christopher -- christopher@cechinatrans.demon.co.uk http://www.cechinatrans.demon.co.uk/home.html
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