US vs. European Date Notation

[David Keegel]

Paul Hill wrote:
] Assuming you meant that the reporter thought that ISO 8601 is the wrong
] direction, I would say this is consistent. The reporter is probably a word
] person.  In European languages word order is left to right, so it makes sense
] that he would think that smallest to largest should be left to right and should
] be 'correct'.  If he likes 8601, he is viewing a date as a numeric value.

Let me get this straight.
Are you saying that "10/2/99" (or "2/9/99" for US folks) is a "word"??? 

David, who wishes that the world would leave behind historical baggage,
and standardise on ISO-8601 YYYY-MM-DD notation before the year 2000.
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 David Keegel <djk at cyber.com.au>  URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
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