From Roderick Ramage
Iain Macleod may be technically correct in his letter “Fast fool”
(21 October, p 77),
but Feedback was right for the wrong reason. Some wonderful
things have emerged from the US but one of the worst is their wholly
unjustifiable dating system, in which the sequence does not progress in one
direction but reverses from month to day before advancing to year. McDonald’s
made matters worse for Feedback by inserting the time in the middle of the date
when the doughnut’s shelf life ends. The system is clear to no one except
crossword addicts. Had McDonald’s started with the year (00 Aug 14 23) everyone
would say “How sensible”, and Feedback would likely not even have noticed.
Stafford
