X-Digest-Num: 162 Message-ID: <44114.162.949.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 08:53:03 -0500 From: John Minot Subject: Re: lo xajmi tersitna X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 949 Content-Length: 614 Lines: 19 "Evgueni.Sklyanin" wrote: > 'day-of-week:week:day:month:year' (number of the week is usually omitted), > for instance, Tuesday, June 8th, 1999 = 3::8:6:1999 > > The date is Tuesday, June 8th, 1999 = > li ci pi'epi'e bi pi'exa pi'epasososo cu detri Has there ever been any dialog on why the order is month/day/year and whether it should be so? American English is one of the few languages in the world with that order. British English, Spanish, Russian, and practically every language in the world (although not Japanese, which has year/month/day) have day/month/year. co'o be'i la djan mainat