[wp-hackers] Default Date is Inhumane...

[Ryan Boren]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 13:30 -0700, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Ryan Boren wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 13:08 -0700, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:
> > > Actually, many Americans aren't that smart. I'm speaking as someone who
> > > used to talk to travel agents about flight times -- and many of THEM
> > > couldn't wrap their heads around 24-hour time (even though their CRSes use
> > > it). I used to be in travel agent support for the luxury division of
> > > Expedia, so I did that all day.
> >
> > Yes, those stupid Americans.  It's amazing that THEY became the world's
> > super power.  Must be dumb luck. Just think of what they could do if
> > they could tell time.  :-)
> 
> Heh, well, my husband, also an American (but educated in Hong Kong) likes
> to ask people how much things are in "real" measurements whenever they use
> US-only standards.
> 
> So I use a weird mix of ISO date and US time.
> 
> My cat is trying to think of a way of expressing time in international
> feline standards. When he manages to pound out anything cohesive, I'll
> help him implement it.

Hah!  I'll see what my dog can come up with it.  :-)

In the US there is a grab bag mix of imperial and metric units.  Food is
often packaged in liters and grams, engine displacement is measured in
liters, but roads are in miles, and playing fields are in yards.
Flexible inconsistency, an American tradition. :-)

For the record, I prefer Japanese style big-endian dates, but that's
because I'm an engineer.  It's definitely not prevalent in the US, where
middle-endian is the most common.

Ryan