Re: Re: date format
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- Subject: [mg80857] Re: [mg80826] Re: date format
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 03:47:52 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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For the same reasons that in the U.S. we still use miles and ounces, etc.? rob wrote: > It appears that the natural output of Date[] has > year, month, day, etc which puts the least significant value > on the right, just like most other numbering systems. I've > always wondered why most people don't use this simple > convention for dates. -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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