On 17/02/10 19:49, 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?
Woooh, yea, it's a real ball! :-) While my mailer translates most date formats written by sensible mailers correctly, when responding in writing to posts I try to spell out along the lines of "on 23 Feb 2010", for example, " you wrote..." rather than take the risk that the mailer at the other end will stuff up the date and make it read "02/23/2010" - or some such rubbish. The Americans have a lot to answer for..... :-) . ('Color' instead of 'colour'; 'harbor' instead of 'harbour'; 'ass' instead of 'arse'; and the list can go on..... :-) .) BC -- The calendar's days are numbered! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org