On 17/02/10 20:12, Ed Greshko wrote:
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.
For the purpose of this exercise, ie in replying to your earlier post, I have set Thunderbird to use the same character encoding when replying to a message. So, you received the encoding format (above) of what you had sent out originally (ie, in UTF-8 encoding). You are using UTF-8 as your encoding, which is what my TB used to reply to your post- and which is why you are seeing the gooblydook above. BC -- The calendar's days are numbered! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org