At 11:32 AM -0600 11/04/11, Doug McNutt wrote:
>At 17:46 +1000 4/11/11, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>>In the Date & Time section of the prefs, the little panel 
>>changeable by the up/down arrows, gives the date as 11/04/09, i.e. 
>>the 11 April 2009 - that's the (sensible!) way we Australians 
>>generally write dates.
>
>Geez.  I can't belive the little-endian guys at Intel got that far 
>into Australia.
>
>You put the least significant datum - the day - first and the most 
>significant datum -year - last.  But at the same time you put the 
>most significant digit - two zeros in your case - first.  Two 
>different conventions in the same grouping of data.

We like to know what day it is each day; the date for the day changes 
every day, therefore we put it in the primary position (for left > 
right readers). in fact, I name my files starting with The reverse 
date, e.g. 11-04-12, which I insert with Typinator (after using Ti4M 
since practically the beginning of time) because that keeps them in 
1 > x order in the Finder.

>But then everyone - well, I donno about the Arabs - puts volumes of 
>a book onto shelves backwards with the first page of volume 1 right 
>next to the last page of volume 2.

Huh? I always do my shelves l > r. I thought everyone did.

>--> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to 
>admit it. <--

And furthermore, unaccountably drives on the right side of the road 
so r > l book shelving is probably a hangover from that. WE drive on 
the left, so when we want to move out of our lane to overtake, we do 
it in the correct direction -- l > r just like we read.  ;)

Cheers, geoff

Geoffrey Heard
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