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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Dates & things in C
Summary: GET INTERNATIONAL
Message-ID: <1128@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 30 May 89 22:19:13 GMT
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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A propos dates, a small comment: Most American programmers seem not
to have noticed that there is a world OUTSIDE the U.S. of A. Many
international (read european) programmers include flexible date and
time formats in their programs, but how many american ditto do ?

I'm NOT saying that American programmers are bad, ugly or even narrow-
minded, I just want to make ALL people aware of the need to interna-
tionalize their programs. Tools for this will soon be available in UNIX,
but I doubt that they will be used. The Macintosh computers have had
the international resources for quite some time now, but still not
everybody use them (Read: M*crosoft, MS W*rd)

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