Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> "Charlie Gordon" <news@chqrlie.org> schrieb:
>> "Richard Heathfield" <rjh@see.sig.invalid> a écrit:
>>
.... snip ...
>>
>>> UK date format: day/month/year.
>
> Same format in the rest of Europe, only a different separator:
> day.month.year
> The UK format is pretty hard to distinguish from the US format
>
>> As compared to the big endian notation year.month.day used for
>> example in Japan,
>
> The most sensible IMHO, makes sorting easiest.
>
>> and the braindead endian mixup month/day/year used in the USA.

Why do people keep using these obsolete formats, when there exists
an ISO standard for the operation (close to the Japanese format)?

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