Re: gdate question.

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote:
> Why are you using the MDY order for the API. This might be the natural
> order in the US, but it is completely illogical. Either you take the DMY
> order or the YMD order, but MDY is really anacronistic, because the order
> has nothing to do with significance, so take highest to lowest
> significane, i.e. YMD or lowest to highest significance, i.e. DMY, but not
> such a mixed form. It's like writing a time in the format
> hours:seconds:minutes. Please change that, as long as nobody's started
> using it.

YMD is pretty handy when sorting.

	Jeff