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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:26:05 +0200
From: Thorild Selen <thorild@Update.UU.SE>
Subject: Re: lo xajmi tersitna
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There are other good reasons to use year-month-day, since that's the
order that's normally used in other measurements (starting with
the most significant part and the rest following by decreasing
significance); for example, I guess most of you write the time of
day as HH:MM:SS. not SS:MM:HH or HH:SS:MM. It's also the ordering
that we use for writing decimal numbers (although some languages,
such as German, does it differently when numbers are spoken or
written out in words instead of digits -- this doesn't seem very
"logical" to me, but I guess it's hard to change old habits...)

Another reason that I like year-month-day might be that that's the
official standard here in Sweden :)  It's not the world and
the Lojban community adapting to Swedish standards, rather the
case of Swedes having accepted an ISO standard that the rest of
the world doesn't care about. Well, perhaps Lojbanists do?

/Thorild