[Coco] ftp.maltedmedia

[Roger Taylor]

At 08:55 PM 11/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/18/03 6:20:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>linville at tuxdriver.com writes:
>
> > This is probably a better argument than "That's the way the French do
> >  it..." :-)
>
>How about "that's the way OS-9 has always done it?"  Right, years ago I was
>referring to YYMMDD as "OS9 format."  BTW, the US military and British use
>DDMMYY, which is probably why the French don't :-)
>
> >  As long as we are proposing changes, how about YYYYMMDD instead?  That
> >  (e.g. file-20030104) will be more clear than file-030104 would be...
>
>Yes -- most of us have a lot of files unchanged since the last millennium,
>and it would be nice if they sorted in the right order too.  Which 
>YYYYMMDD will
>do.


I'm sure these date issues have something to do with a woman somewhere.

It all goes back to the toilet paper thing, or why women are too lazy to 
put the seat back down.  I mean, we have to lift it up, too.

:-/