Re: [tlug] "Locale" urrrgh

["Keith Bawden" <keith@example.com>]

On 7/13/07, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> I agree. I get ticket at applications that do not let me control my
> date formats irrespective of my locale. I prefer YYYY/mm/dd, not the
> US's idiotic mm/dd/YYYY and the Euro Zone's unfortunate dd/mm/YYYY
> (only unfortunate that the US pissed in the pool with their moronic
> format). I set my locale to en_UK or _IE so that spell-checking works
> the way I expect, but I like the JP dates: YYYY年mm月dd日. Just too bad
> everyone cannot read those three simple kanji. :)

I personally like either dd/mm/YYYY or YYYY/mm/dd. to me these make
more sense to me as they progress from a smaller to larger unit of
measure in order (or decrease). The U.S. format makes not sense to me:
Months ---> days --> YEARS....

Regards, Keith