On 17 mrt 2010, at 14:59, Yao Jiankang wrote:
But if someone can't figure yout 2010-01-02 then maybe they're not our
audience.
there are two kinds of audience: those who understand 2010-01-02 by usual way
and those who understand 2010-01-02 by unusual way.
your logic reasoning seems to be simlar to:
if you don't understand the ietf draft (ietf rfc, ietf discussion, .....),
you are not ietf audience.
There needs to be a healthy balance between the effort expended to make
something clear and the effort expended to understand something. RFCs can get
pretty complex. Someone who can't figure out what 2010-01-02 is supposed to
mean with all the resources of the internet available to him/her is going to
have a hard time understanding RFCs.
An anthropologist may approach the situation open minded and don't make any
assumption about whether this is yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy-dd-mm, but anoyone with
even the slightest exposure to engineering will understand that the only
logical continuation of yyyy- can only be mm-dd.
(Although the exposure to non-standard ways of doing things may make this
harder for Americans.)
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