From jjllambias@hotmail.com Sat May 06 14:23:59 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23345 invoked from network); 6 May 2000 21:23:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 6 May 2000 21:23:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.67) by mta3 with SMTP; 6 May 2000 21:23:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 71573 invoked by uid 0); 6 May 2000 21:23:58 -0000 Message-ID: <20000506212358.71572.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.41.247.34 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 06 May 2000 14:23:58 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.41.247.34] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban / Most translated Web Page Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 14:23:58 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" It is not very clear to me what status the recommendation to use DD;MM;YYYY has in Lojban. The reverse order is equally grammatical and just as easy to understand. It is also unambiguous, because the 4 digits of the year make it clear which part is the year. So: {li 2000;05;07} can be nothing but May 7th of this year, same as {li ;05;07} and {li ;;07}. (I would assume that elisions default to current.) Similarly {li 07;05;2000}, {li 07;05;} and {li 07;;}. Since there is no possible confusion, there doesn't seem to be any need to exclude either one as a possibility. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com