Date fails on dd/mm/yyyy

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 07:17 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> The big problem is that, whilst the ISO standard (YYYY-MM-DD) is an 
> international standard, and, logical, due to the isolationist nature
> of the USA and the intent of the USA legislatures to cause
> international confusion, the USA refuses to adopt international
> standards and logic, instead, imposing illogical USA standards, such
> as MM/DD/YYYY, and, whilst the international non-ISO standard,
> (DD/MM/YYYY) being kind of the ISO standard in reverse, is more
> logical than the USA abomination, because it is logical, the USA will
> not accept that, either. It is the USA policy of conflict for the
> sake of conflict.

Have to disagree, here. Why shouldn't they use whatever format they
like? It's not like they are imposing it on anyone. If you don't like
the date utility, re-write it or modify it and put it out there. People
will use it - or not.

All of this is about dates as they are input by or presented to people
- and US people have as much right as anyone else to have dates input
and presented in the way they are comfortable with or used to.

This is a complete storm in a teacup.

Regards, K.

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