New date stuff: am I doing something wrong?

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 12:20 PM +0100 5/18/2007, David Bovill wrote:
>Ah - so that definitely is a bug :) Should be american date no? So there is
>no way of taking a date in english - lets say Scottish format and converting
>it as we cannot assume the user settings... ok so I guess I have to script
>it. Funny I thought those yanks would of objected to being called english :)


It's for historical reasons: HyperCard called that format the english 
date. (Probably because the engineers were thinking in terms of 
English versus other languages such as Spanish - that is, localized 
systems - instead of in terms of England versus the US.)
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