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

[Michael Heilemann]

Good point. If it isn't possible to use an abbreviation of the month 
name, like Aug, then at least this is a better way of doing it...

- Mike

On 24/8-2004, at 1.44, Mark Jaquith wrote:

>  The international date format is YYYY-MM-DD.  It makes sense for a 
> few reasons.  For one, it does not resemble the ambiguous MM-DD-YYYY 
> or DD-MM-YYYY formats, so people won't make assumptions about dates 
> such as 04-02-2005.  Secondly, it is sortable.  Take a look at this 
> list:
>
>  2004-06-04
>  2004-06-08
>  2004-07-02
>  2004-08-05
>
>  Alphabetical/numerological order == chronological order.
>
>  Day is a subset of month, which is a subset of year.
>
>  Just my 2 cents/euro-cents/pence ;-)
>
>  - Mark
>
>  Ryan Boren wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 15:43 -0500, Seth Thomas Rasmussen wrote:
>
> Ryan,
>
>
> Dude, chill.  I just get tired of the reflexive anti-Americanism that
> pops up on the lists and IRC channel all the time.  Since a good deal 
> of
> WordPress code is written by Americans, perhaps we could not call them
> stupid so casually.  That's all.
>
> I know that one of my comments was not fair and not representative of
> reality or my feelings, poorly thought out basically, but most of the 
> rest
> of it is valid criticism. And we get a lot of that not because of some
> annoying fad, but because a lot of it is well deserved, something that 
> it
> would benefit us to pay attention to once in a while.
>
> We've gone off in the weeds, and it's my fault.  This is not the place
> to discuss the sins and merits of America.  My request is simply to
> avoid dissing Americans as well as any other nationality or ethnicity 
> on
> the lists, forums, and IRC channel.  We keep descending into these long
> threads about how stupid and evil Americans are.  I don't really care 
> to
> hear the same old arguments and jokes every time I log on to IRC or
> every time we discuss measurement standards.  It's not worth my time.
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
>
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