[2004-11-02] Hi, Just to let you all know that we have now passed the 1000 messages mark in this forum. Keep on discussing things. It is making a difference! ...
... A Martian day is almost 24 Earth Hours long, but it takes 2 Earth Years for Mars go around the Sun once (1 Martian Year). Several "Martian Calendars" have...
[2004-11-02] ... There is a handy list over at: http://timeanddate.com/time/dst2004b.html ... Even worse is arranging say a conference call between several...
In a message dated 11/2/2004 1:09:20 PM Central Standard Time, g1smd@... writes: ... There is a handy list over at:...
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... Europe. ... There was a thread starting at message #801 earlier. Perhaps the most ... From: "Gilbert Healton" <ghealton@e...> Date: Wed Mar 10, 2004...
Latest News 10th March 2002 - The creation of a solid ISO8601 date implementation is now a project goal...
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... To my experience many people even if they have frequent international contacts do not think or talk in UTC but merely in time differences between different...
... And in some parts of the world, the evolution is going backwards. In Sweden we've used CCYY-MM-DD, CCYYMMDD, YY-MM-DD and YYMMDD a very long time. Those...
It should be week 52. The assertion that it is always week 53 is wrong (sometimes it is). Better text would be: If the week containing January 1 has four or...
... There isn't a preset "rule" in many places. Things are decided from year to year as they go along. Some countries haven't even announced their DST...
Consider the date stamp CCYYWW which uses a week code WW Does the year only increment when the week code is week code " 01 "? For example " 20050101 " [...
What did they used to say? Over here in the US, many people don't see a need to change yet still. I can't wait until numbers, currency notation, and date/time...
... Thanks! That's what I thought. ... Looks exactly like the text I've prepared for the bugreport. :-) Kind regards, Ted Lyngmo Lyngmo Ted wrote: Does anyone...
Yes. I've heard some Swedish people say that they actually prefer DD/MM/YYYY because the majority of Europe uses it. What sense is there in that? Just because...
... There's not much sense in that. I'm not even sure that it's true that the majority of Europe uses it. I've never heard any Swedish person wanting to use...
Well, most people I speak to in Europe use some form of day-month-year as their date format. With words, only in Latvia and some other Eastern European nations...
Well the problem is that most people don't have separate modes for writing and speaking. Many teachers even encourage students to "write the way you speak". I...
... Yes, and that was safe back then since we always had the most significant figure first and least significant figure last when we used the format YYMMDD or...
... It won't happen over night, but I think the metric system has been the preferred system in the US (from a government point of view) for 20-30 years. Have...
[2004-11-04] Most of the world has signed up to ISO 8601. Handy list: http://www.qsl.net/g1smd/isoimp.htm The Year was defined as "CCYY" in the 1988 version of...
Great question even if we get chided for being off topic. It has been "nominally" preferred since at least 1975. In 1990, the government declared it...
Since many people here write better than they speak anyway, it's always encouraged to write better than yous peak here, however people still write '12/31/1999...
