On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:49:27AM -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
>
> Locale systems that force you to pick one immutable set of conventions
> for a given country are broken in general. I remember having to tell
> MS-DOS that I was in South Africa or someplace, just to get my directory
> listing the way I wanted it. *nix systems that start with "fr_FR" and
> then allow you to define "fr_FR-EURO" or something really aren't much
> better; what if I want to deviate from the pre-defined locale in four or
> five ways instead of just one?
You have to pick one, Doug. You cannot write
"On the 3/1/02 2002-03-01 1/3/02 1/3/2002 1.3.2002 I went to..."
Or you can write it but weiting the same date in 5 different
formats in the same line is not customary and superflous.
Kind regards
keld
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