søn, 2003-03-23 kl. 05:38 skrev John W Baxter:
> I, too, don't know why we write dates that way. It's neither smallest unit
> to largest, nor largest to smallest, nor most interesting first, nor most
> interesting last*. I also don't understand why we insist that there are
> two 11:00 times per day so we have to add disambiguators and 12 comes
> before 1 (not on any of my devices on which I can set it to 24 hour form);
> or why we persist in measuring things based on a particular deceased King's
> thumb (if that really is where the inch came from).
*Again OT*. I'm having a bad day.
How do you define "we?" I'm not a member of "we." I'm a member of what
"you" define as being "Old Europe." And "we" do everything to do with
time, weight and measurement as you would like it to be.
Best,
Tony
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