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 Business & Environment Writer, Editor, Publisher The Worsley Press Buy "Type & Layout: Are you communicating or just making pretty shapes?" -- the world's ONLY scientifically based guide to type and layout, and receive a free 140 page guide to advertising for small business: "How to make great ads for (small) business: 99 real world advertising ideas to kickstart *your* business today". Amazon or http://www.worsleypress.com