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.

That's one of the hard things about converting Apple software from Motorola to Intel chips.  Two bytes in a 16 bit word. Which goes at  which end? It gets even worse with 32 and 64 bit words. ABCD, BADC, DCBA are all in use by various operating systems.

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.
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