[Leica] Today is 8/9/10

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

2010-08-09-01:42:13 Mark Rabiner:
> Today is 8/9/10!

Yeah...  no.  Month-day-year (medium-small-large) is a completely
irrational order in which to write dates, and I reject it utterly.
Even though I live in the US.

Besides, you, the Rabs, who rail against anyone using acronyms, even
those well understood by everyone else in the room, should acknowledge
that writing three two-digit numbers in a row, which will be
interpreted by different people in different ways, isn't clear.  It's
more unclear than most of your hated acronyms.  So use something
unambiguous:

  9-Aug-2010

  August 9th, 2010 (if you really insist on month first)

  2010-08-09 (because nobody writes year-day-month!)

So there.

While I don't want the world to be boringly culturally homogeneous,
there are some things we should all just get with the program on:

  - Numerically abbreviate dates, if we must, day-month-year.

  - Use the metric system, dammit.

  - Drive on the right-hand side of the road.

Some adjustments there for many of us.  Everybody, get on it.

Thanks.

 -Jeff