At 12:14 PM -0000 6/25/97, Misha Wolf wrote:
>As many of the original developers of DC were (and are) Americans, various
>parochial national standards were referenced. This will hopefully get fixed
>with the belated discovery of the rest of the planet. It reminds me of that
>poster (by New Yorker magazine?) showing a map of the world from the point of
>view of a resident of New York ...
Well, that's Americans for you. They still stubornly fight against the
metric system, they still use Farenheit instead of Celsius, and won't speak
anything but English. :-7
I doubt very much that the dublic core is another example of American
snittiness. To begin with, I don't necessarily see what is implicitly
*wrong* with the format of YYYYMMDD, except perhaps that the dashes make
the date easier to read. Secondly, the initial use of ANSI standards in
America makes sense, because they are most likely to be seen in related
applications (ie, there are probably a lot of American databases with dates
in that format, and converting would be easier). Choosing initially to use
the ANSI standards does not imply indifference about the rest of the planet
any more than visiting a local barborshop for a haircut implys indifference
for the hair salon three miles further. They just chose it because it was
close.
And I'll not have you calling the standards established by the American
National Standards Institue referred to as "parochial", thank you very
much. :-P
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