[SpamCop-List] Re: spam is NOT 10 days old to me - got it this a.m.

[Mike Easter]

jg wrote:

> I've got a feeling that "logic" or "rational" is in the eyes of the
> beholder.

That is true.  The concept of big endian vs little endian pertains.  But
our numerical or deciaml system is big endian.  Not very many such
systems are little endian.  But the 'people' who don't seem to want to
come to some kind of global agreement seem to be the US and some
Europeans which are big endian decimal societies.

The US isn't even properly metricated, for chrissakes.  It is really
going to be hard to get it to iso its customary time expressions.

>  If you grew up using one date format, it becomes logical to
> you.  I fail to see logic involved between placement of dd and mm and
> yy. Really makes no diff to me - where does logic come into play?

I consider it, endian-ness, to be 'logic' - but some other terminologies
such as 'one dimensional sequencing methods' can be used

> rhetorical question...

The decimal system is big endian.  The ISO time expressing system is big
endian.  To me, it is 'illogical' for a time expressing system to not be
consistently big endian.

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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin