Re: 2013 21 Aug

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From: Anton Shepelev
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:29

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Peter Brooks:

> I  agree  that  going DD-MM-YYYY is as sensible as
> going YYYY-MM-DD, depending, a little, on what the
> information is -- with most quotidian stuff having
> the day first makes sense  because  that's  what's
> most  important,  while  with a list of historical
> dates having the year first might make more sense.

There's one reason to prefer the second version over
the  first: it makes lexicographical ordering of the
date thus recorded  correspond  with  chronological,
which  is so much easier to handle by both computers
and people.

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