Re: date format
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg80877] Re: date format
- From: Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:39:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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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. Some languages (e.g. Hungarian) have always used the y-m-d format. ;-) The conventions were probably shaped by how dates can be expressed in different languages (3rd day of June; tertio die Junii; but in Hungarian its in the reverse order: június harmadik napja). Szabolcs