From jjllambias@hotmail.com Thu May 11 07:09:13 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21571 invoked from network); 11 May 2000 14:08:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 May 2000 14:08:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.240.138) by mta3 with SMTP; 11 May 2000 14:08:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 53218 invoked by uid 0); 11 May 2000 14:08:39 -0000 Message-ID: <20000511140839.53217.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 12.128.10.26 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 11 May 2000 07:08:39 PDT X-Originating-IP: [12.128.10.26] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 07:08:39 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" la pycyn cusku di'e >ISO's standards are voluntary and some of >them pretty uniformly ignored because stupid (hey, it was a committee, what >can you expect). i u'i la lojban ji'a se platu lo kamni >Better one convention, even if you think >it sucks -- apparently not practically, but because it is "illogical" >Sounds >like Brits and driving. Personally I don't care much one way or the other. I like DDMMYYYY because it's what I'm used to in Spanish, and I like YYYYMMDD because of all the reasons Hartmut is giving. I just don't see a pressing need to impose a convention at this point. As you say, it is not something likely to cause confusion. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com