When would you think things will change in the US?...
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ivy19991231@...
ali0917
Nov 5, 2004 4:32 am
True, that most countries signed up to ISO 8601, but how often do you spot in general usage in business, day-to-day writing, etc.?...
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ivy19991231@...
ali0917
Nov 5, 2004 4:31 am
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...
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ali0917
Nov 5, 2004 4:29 am
No, however general population and legeal field still uses US Customary. :-(...
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ivy19991231@...
ali0917
Nov 5, 2004 4:28 am
You mean some people used something like 31/12-1999 and spoke 'thirty-first of December, one thousand and ninty-nine'?...
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John Steele
johnmsteele
Nov 4, 2004 5:45 pm
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...
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g1smd_amsat_org
Nov 4, 2004 5:43 pm
[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...
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Lyngmo Ted
tedlyngmo
Nov 4, 2004 4:18 pm
... 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...
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Lyngmo Ted
tedlyngmo
Nov 4, 2004 4:16 pm
... 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...
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piebaldconsult
Nov 4, 2004 2:05 pm
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...
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ali0917
Nov 3, 2004 6:14 pm
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...
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ivy19991231@...
ali0917
Nov 3, 2004 5:45 pm
Yes. I wonder when that will happen over here still....
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Lyngmo Ted
tedlyngmo
Nov 3, 2004 5:04 pm
... 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...
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Lyngmo Ted
tedlyngmo
Nov 3, 2004 5:03 pm
... Let's start by using the metric system world wide. Kind regards, Ted Lyngmo...
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ivy19991231@...
ali0917
Nov 3, 2004 3:54 pm
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...
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Lyngmo Ted
tedlyngmo
Nov 3, 2004 3:46 pm
... Yes. Kind regards, Ted Lyngmo...
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Lyngmo Ted
tedlyngmo
Nov 3, 2004 3:45 pm
... 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...
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ivy19991231@...
ali0917
Nov 3, 2004 3:33 pm
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...
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Pat Monahan
barcode_ie
Nov 3, 2004 2:00 pm
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 " [...
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g1smd_amsat_org
Nov 3, 2004 1:25 pm
... 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...
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John Steele
johnmsteele
Nov 3, 2004 1:13 pm
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...
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volsano@...
Nov 3, 2004 9:57 am
... 2004-100-02 !? ... VS...
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Lyngmo Ted
tedlyngmo
Nov 3, 2004 9:13 am
... 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...
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Klaus Schmid
ljgks
Nov 3, 2004 1:26 am
... 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...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Nov 3, 2004 12:22 am
Latest News 10th March 2002 - The creation of a solid ISO8601 date implementation is now a project goal...
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johnmsteele
Nov 2, 2004 9:01 pm
... Europe. ... There was a thread starting at message #801 earlier. Perhaps the most ... From: "Gilbert Healton" <ghealton@e...> Date: Wed Mar 10, 2004...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Nov 2, 2004 7:59 pm
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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g1smd_amsat_org
Nov 2, 2004 7:00 pm
[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...
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g1smd_amsat_org
Nov 2, 2004 3:34 pm
... 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...
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g1smd_amsat_org
Nov 2, 2004 2:39 pm
[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! ...
