Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection

From: HÁRSFALVI Levente <publicmailbox_at_harsfalvi.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:07:27 +0200
Message-ID: <5357BB0F.6030908@harsfalvi.net>
Hi!,


On 2014-04-23 07:50, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:41:54PM +0200, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
>>
>>> At least you got the annoying AM/PM problem fixed where it counts and
>>> just use the 24hr scale. There are still some holdouts though...
>>
>> Like the date of 11/10/12.. <- who outside the US knows FOR SURE what
>> day it is supposed to represent?
> 
> Well, is there any place in the world that would natively use strictly
> big-endian or strictly little-endian notation for times? ...

Should I say, HU?... |-) (Date/time is traditionally "yyyy. mm. dd.,
hh.mm.ss TZ", with some parts usually omitted.)

> We Europeans should keep quiet about the US date formats, because the
> German-influenced countries (most of continental Europe) are writing the
> street name before the street number, breaking the little-endian order. 
> Decades ago, someone who used to live in Iso-Roobertinkatu (translated:
> Big Robert's Street) repeatedly got snailmail to "150 Roobertinkatu" :)

Well, although HU might be also generally called a German-influenced
country in some respects, at least we appear to use that notation by
tradition :-). (Hungarian address is generally
addressee-followed-by-address, each in most-significant-first (as is
date, and personal name, for that matter)). Minus ZipCode, of course,
which might have been added to the _bottom_ of the address because of
technical (not traditional) reasons.


Best regards,


Levente


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