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   From: pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu   
      
   The Horny Goat  writes:   
      
   > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:23:17 -0500, Doc O'Leary   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>In article ,   
   >> Greg Goss  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Doc O'Leary  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> >As an aside, I always thought that a good way to get the US public into   
   >>> >using the metric system would be to market the hell out of metric being   
   >>> >a way to get *more*.  500 grams is *more* than a pound.  4 liters is   
   >>> >*more* than a gallon.  100kph is *more* than 60mph.  Gluttony always   
   >>> >wins in America.   
   >>>   
   >>> Don't you already use 2 litre pop bottles.   
   >>   
   >>No, but just because I'm not a fan of carbonated beverages.  We also   
   >>have 9mm guns and plenty of gram-based drug traffic.  But it's not the   
   >>same thing as widespread metric adoption.  Nothing that would give a   
   >>time traveller from 50 years ago much trouble.   
   >   
   > Agreed - though the NATO standard dates (I assume the months are   
   > translated in non-English speaking areas) are 31Jan2013 or 31Jan13 so   
   > that no one need question whether 01/12/12 refers to January 12th,   
   > 2012 or December 1st, 2012.   
      
   Better, ISO 8601 specifies dates in the format yyyy-mm-dd, which is not   
   only unambiguous but also collates nicely when you're listing a   
   directory filled with files named by date.  It also handles time in a   
   similarly nice fashion.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 or   
   http://xkcd.com/1179/   
      
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