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Re: [SLE] Installing 10.2 beta 1: read this BEFORE installing
- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 23:06:37 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200611090007.02421.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 09 November 2006 00:01, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 16:06 -0000, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> > > I assume you're referring to Dec. 11, 2005.
> >
> > Round my part of the world that would be 12 November 2005 - just for
> > clarity,
>
> In mine too.
>
> > given that lots of Europeans and lots of North Americans are on the list,
> > might it be good for people to put the month as Jan, Feb etc? Just a
> > thought,
>
> Or iso if numbers only, year in four digit format - remember 2000? That's
> what standards are good for, after all.
No, because then you're back to confusion again. People default to their own
local way of writing dates if you use numbers. If you do, you'd have to point
out explicitly every time that "this date is in ISO format", and in the end
it's just easier and less confusing to just write out the month name in
letters
> The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 16:06 -0000, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> > > I assume you're referring to Dec. 11, 2005.
> >
> > Round my part of the world that would be 12 November 2005 - just for
> > clarity,
>
> In mine too.
>
> > given that lots of Europeans and lots of North Americans are on the list,
> > might it be good for people to put the month as Jan, Feb etc? Just a
> > thought,
>
> Or iso if numbers only, year in four digit format - remember 2000? That's
> what standards are good for, after all.
No, because then you're back to confusion again. People default to their own
local way of writing dates if you use numbers. If you do, you'd have to point
out explicitly every time that "this date is in ISO format", and in the end
it's just easier and less confusing to just write out the month name in
letters
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