Lynch was talking about dates when he typed...
It makes more sense. Smallest increments to largest.
I understand the majority of the world uses this format. Sort of like the Metric System situation... we do it the hard way!
Actually in this day and age, it would make far more sense to use the "yyyy/mm/dd" format since that makes it a heckuva lot easier to write a sort routine. But that's just too confusing.
And I still say the reason we haven't converted to metric like much of the rest of the world is because there are no truly compelling reasons to put ourselves through that aggravation and expense. I do think we're gradually going to go the way of England, measurement-wise, where eventually both the current system and metric measurements are accepted and widely used, sometimes even together. I don't think we're going to do a Canada-style full-scale conversion anytime soon, though.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(hmmm...[quote] not implemented on this server...)
*** This post was edited by RideMan on 3/1/2001. ***