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List:       koffice
Subject:    OT (was Re: KOffice)
From:       "Byron C. Servies" <bservies () pacang ! com>
Date:       2000-03-12 21:39:58
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On 3/12/2000 at 7:51 PM, david@mandrakesoft.com (David Faure) wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 02:52:45PM -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > > you're mixing stuff from 19991204 (very old) with stuff from 20000228
> > > (who numbers the wrong way round, BTW ?).
> > > 
> > Guilty!
> 
> :-)
> 
> You know that stuff like 02032000 is _very_ ambiguous ?
> For you it's the 3rd of Feb., but for most European countries it's the
> 2nd of March.
> 
> Naming 20000302 is non ambiguous and is the right order for sorting
> to be done properly :)

0302 and 0203 are ambiguous regardless of where you put the year.  Only the
addition piece of information about sort order helps to clarify, and that is not
normally apparent.

Byron

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