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Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 10:29:52
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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