Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

[Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 17/02/10 19:55, Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
> > C wrote:
> >   
> >     
> > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:36, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > >   
> > >     
> > >       
> > > > > And the other thing, how is it possible that your website shows,
> > > > > "*Things the general public need to know about Microsoft and Windows!
> > > > > Last modified 01/11/10"?
> > > > >
> > > > > *It's only 17* February* 2010 today and nowhere close to November '10.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >       
> > > > >         
> > > > >           
> > > > Some places use dd/mm/yy and some places use mm/dd/yy.
> > > >     
> > > >       
> > > >         
> > > Yup, and it's a source of confusion all the time.  Like the dtae
> > > above.. is that 01 November 2010 or 11 January 2010?
> > >
> > > I've started using ISO 8601 date formats in my job (where date/time
> > > info is really important to be understood across various countries),
> > > and even going so far as to really clarify... like to write today's
> > > date, it's 2010-02-17 in ISO 8601,and even then I've had to follow
> > > that with more clarification... so the dates end up being written as
> > > 2010-02-17 (February 17).
> > >
> > > It's another oddity of local standards which work just fine.. locally,
> > > but when taken out into the bigger world, they stop working, or are a
> > > point of confusion :-)  Isn't life fun some days?
> > >
> > > C.
> > >   
> > >     
> > >       
> > I bet a lot of folks would have trouble with the date 99年2月17日.
> >   
> >     
>
> Nah, not here at all, in anyway...
>
>   
Most people would not know why 99年2月17日 is equivalent to February 17,
2010.

But, it is interesting that your message arrived here marked with MIME
headers....

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

That would explain why 99年2月17日 became what it did in the reply.

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