aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP (11/07/87)
>Does anyone know why dates are not usually written in a most to >least significant order? > > -- Ray (lampman@heurikon.UUCP) It depends on where you come from. I've been writing 1987 November 4 ever since high school. I make lots of mistakes on M/D/Y, D/M/Y, etc. forms - I think that they should all be Y/M/D. Therefore I nearly always use 4 digits for the year, and spell out the month - avoids confusion.
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (11/17/87)
> >Does anyone know why dates are not usually written in a most to > >least significant order? Because it violates a fundamental principle of building things for humans, not programs: put the most useful information first. The year is usually not the "most significant" information to a human! > ... I nearly > always use 4 digits for the year, and spell out the month - avoids > confusion. An excellent rule, regardless of what order you use. -- Those who do not understand Unix are | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology condemned to reinvent it, poorly. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry