François Pinard writes:
 > joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) writes:
 > 
 > | pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:
 > | 
 > | > The usual wrong thing with dates is using local American habits in
 > | > wide distribution contexts (like mail and news) for when programs
 > | > have *not* been internationalised, or by default.  ISO 8601 would be
 > | > a good default.
 > | 
 > | Yes, but ISO 8601, although intuitive to me, is not very friendly
 > | to people used to other ways of writing dates, such as americans.
 > 
 > You might have been educated by Americans :-).
 > 
 > There are other cultures in this world than the American one.

Have patience.  We've only gotten serious about the business of
assimilating/squashing other cultures within the last twenty
years.  These things take time. :-)

 > The trend is considering that for international matters,
 > choices should not always nor necessarily be American by
 > default.

True, but there's no reason to antagonize Americans on purpose,
is there?  The fact that Americans might be confused is a valid
complaint, isn't it?