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

[Frank Ellermann]

jg wrote:

> 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?  rhetorical question...

It's quite real and not only rhetorical if you try to sort
dates lexicographically:  yyyy-mm-dd works, most other formats
don't work.  For yy instead of yyyy, or formats where you can
omit a leading zero, logic could fail miserably.

But I'd still say that year is more than month, and month is
more than day.  Both dd-mm-yy or yy-mm-dd could relect this.

mm-dd-yy is tricky, is it a shorthand for MMM dd, yyyy ?  The
tiny clock on my desktop says Wed Dec 21 05:49:00 2005.  Bye