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• surely you mean 'English' (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309) on 2004.01.26 4:37 (#27736) Homepage Journal

  English being the language spoken in England (and the rest of the United kingdom, along with Welsh, Gaelic and possibly Irish).

  U.S. english is a just a dialect. If people want to be clear they should say 'U S English'.

  Then there are those stupid dates - when will the U.S. use sensible date formats.

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  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;

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  • On date formats and endian-ness. (Score:2)

    by drhyde (1683)

    Right about the same time that us .ukians use sensible date formats too. Representing dates as little-endian is not as stupid as middle-endian, but is still far from the ideal of big-endian dates.

    Big-endian dates avoid all confusion over what 03/04/2000 means, they sort trivially, and they are an ISO standard.
    • Re:On date formats and endian-ness. (Score:2)

      by TeeJay (2309)

      but 03/04/2000 means 3rd of April, anything else is just plan wrong.

      They will change the order of months or add Nikember or Bigmactober between november and december next.

      --
      
      @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
      print reverse @JAPH;