Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Athel Cornish-Bowden Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Israeli Faces From Earlier Today :-) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 10:45:24 +0200 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 6ncZcMuPYseDdnePY3BCpAAmO1S4YCr4/FaTRwgiJ8E7RFXDZI Cancel-Lock: sha1:4ZTMeRaWvXMMeGKlPGlN5nhKlcs= sha256:ygGft3DeaPTMYmgdJrjqpCNwFxDeI6RFnulQ8ATaRqg= User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Bytes: 1631 On 2024-03-30 16:30:46 +0000, Volney said: > On 3/30/2024 5:05 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote: >> On 2023-10-09 23:26:17 +0000, Volney said: >> >>> On 10/9/2023 >> >> What happened on the tenth of September? Ah, right, you are following >> the bizarre American way of writing dates. >> >>> 6:06 AM, Physfitfreak wrote: >>>> > It's the way this newsreader is configured, and I'm in the US with all > the 'only in the US' quirks. To be honest the 'rest of the world' way > throws me off often. I'd personally prefer a year/month/day format > myself, similar to hour:min:second and is in sorting order. I would prefer it myself if it had any currency, but in everyday life it's hardly used anywhere (except possibly in Sweden). -- athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots