No, they have made many improvements over the years.

"Brian Reay" wrote in message
news:2qmhh7F11fi6gU1@uni- Somehow I don't think the Pilgrim Fathers
brought all that over from
the Old Country!

Yanklanders are not English Speakers.

In any case, what is all the fuss about? Yankland
regularly invades other countries and subjects their
populations to airborne death. What's sauce for the
gander, etc.

"Jack Painter" wrote in message
news:YZk1d.220679$Lj.194476@fed1read03...
"Airy R. Bean" wrote in message
...
Can't something be done about the erroneous date format?
In the English-speaking world, it should read, "11/9/2001"
We who speak the most English make the rules.
It has always been "month-day-year" in the United States of America.

Nobody trusts anything that Tony B.Liar comes out with
unless they have an independently verifiable source of info.

"Bob Miller" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:31:22 +0100, "Airy R. Bean"
wrote:

Can't something be done about the erroneous date format?

In the English-speaking world, it should read, "11/9/2001"


Eh? When was the last time Tony Blair talked about the events of
"11-9"?

Bob
k5qwg

But your obsession with bestiality owes more to Yankland than
it does to Britland.

"Brian Reay" wrote in message
...
I recommend Bill Bryson's book "Made in America"- a very readable account
of
how American English has developed, with bits of the development of
English
English thrown in.

Even in England, English usuage isn't universal. At least, after nearly 28
years in "the south", I still speak proper English ;-)

(Drifting off topic...........)

--
Brian Reay
www.g8osn.org.uk
www.amateurradiotraining.org.uk
FP#898

"Airy R. Bean" wrote in message
...
But your obsession with bestiality owes more to Yankland than
it does to Britland.


Still smarting from you last lost argument with Dr Reay? I guess you've lost
count of them.

"Airy R. Bean" wrote in message
...
Yanklanders are not English Speakers.

In any case, what is all the fuss about? Yankland
regularly invades other countries and subjects their
populations to airborne death. What's sauce for the
gander, etc.


For anyone who may be interested in the real identity of Airy Bean- look up
G4SDW.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:25:11 +0100, "Brian Reay"
wrote:

Even in England, English usuage isn't universal. At least, after nearly 28
years in "the south", I still speak proper English ;-)


Why Aye man!!

Brian Reay wrote:
Even in England, English usuage isn't universal. At least, after nearly 28
years in "the south", I still speak proper English ;-)

Yup, wanna amble over yonder directly, down some suds, and cogitate?


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ISO is international and covers French, German, Spanish, Swedish,
Norwegian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Yiddish, etc, etc.


The English standard, which is the subject of this thread, is 11/9/2001

"Bill Turner" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:31:22 +0100, "Airy R. Bean"
wrote:
In the English-speaking world, it should read, "11/9/2001"
The ISO standard is 20040911. Largest time unit first (year) then next
largest (month) then smallest (day). One advantage to this format is
computers can sort dates as a simple number without any special
programming.
This can be continued with hours, minutes and seconds if desired.
If the world were a rational place, this would become universal
overnight.

The logical way would be 2001/09/11, but the only place I've actually
been where they do dates that way is Taiwan.

Alan NV8A


On 09/13/04 01:31 pm Airy R. Bean put fingers to keyboard and launched
the following message into cyberspace:

Can't something be done about the erroneous date format?

In the English-speaking world, it should read, "11/9/2001"