Re: What does everyone make of this

["Richard Cranium" <duckhacks () gmail com>]

On 9/13/07, Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> wrote:
> --On September 14, 2007 10:07:20 AM +1200 Nick FitzGerald
> <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
>
> > Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> >
> > > > "posted on 11-9-2007 @ 01:09 PM".
> > >
> > > European style, day-month-year.
> >
> > Since when did "European" mean "pretty much anything outside the US/Nth
> > America"???
> >
> > You yanks really should get over your backward view of dates, just as
> > you Northern Hemisphericals should get over referring to (roughly) the
> > months June, July and August as "summer" when addressing a potentially
> > international audience...

> What?  You don't have summer in June, July and August?  What do you call
> it?

I strongly suspect that some people call June, July and August
"Winter". Especially those on the south of the Equator. That might be
the Potential International Audience he was referring too.

You know... the earth tilts...

Richard Cranium

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