I read a number of archived posts here concerning ISO 8601 and the year-month-day date order in general. I saw that the date that the decision to standardise...
Well, I also noticed something... I read a number of archived posts there concerning SI/metric measurement system and the metre-kilogram-second (MKS) format in...
Some current time epochs are: 1. Unix 1970-01-01 it is a 32 bit signed integer. Will overflow 2038-01-19 03:14:07 2. Microsoft NT 1601-01-01 3. Visual C++...
hjwoudenberg@...
May 9, 2003 10:27 pm
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HJW, Hi. It would help if this mail would start with an overview statement, so we know what problem it is you are trying to solve. Although the statements are ...
As the ISO 8601 standard is designed for data interchange between computers using text rather than bytes of numbers, none of your arguments matter. How you...
HJW's answer to these comments. "As the ISO 8601 standard is designed for data interchange between computers using text rather than bytes of numbers, none of...
hjwoudenberg@...
May 13, 2003 4:11 am
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Uh huh, as I said, what you do within your application is up to you. By all means translate it to a binary format for comparisons and storage and such <e.g....
Guys, There is no need for this. Let's calm down and clean it up. HJW, I am not sure why you are so upset. ISO 8601 is a text format for data interchange. You...
In a message dated 5/14/2003 11:53:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tex@... writes: ... I think this is a problem? Dates over the Internet do not allow...
hjwoudenberg@...
May 15, 2003 4:38 pm
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Hello, although this is off-topic in this list, I would like to answer on any mistakes in the mail of hjwoudenberg. Fortunately the subject is related to the...
Hello, ... This is not a really problem. In German, we differentiate between 'eindeutig' = 'unambiguous' = 'not having two possible interpretations' and...
Hello, ... This is not any problem, a human or a machine interpreter can correct interpret such values. ... ... Such values are meaningless. The used...
In a message dated 5/16/2003 12:51:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time,...
hjwoudenberg@...
May 16, 2003 1:47 pm
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HJW, In your message, quoted in full below, you simply quote a fragment of "mailinglists'" message with no additional text except a rather cryptic subject...
In a message dated 5/16/2003 11:13:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Did you read the title? [ISO8601] How do you think a machine should do it? Magic doesn't...
hjwoudenberg@...
May 17, 2003 5:05 am
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... I read the subject, but I didn't understand it. Actually, the ... which is even more difficult to follow than the version quoted at the top of this...
... TimeDelimiter = "T" or "t" or " " MilliSecondDelimiter = "," or "." or ":" If this was feigned and future messages of the current tendency continue, please...
Jeandré
jeandre@...
May 18, 2003 6:27 am
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Hi all, It being a while since I've read 8601 and it being a wet Sunday afternoon I decided to have a detailed look through the latest version I have available...
... According to the ISO website, ISO 8601 is at "stage 60.60" ("International Standard published"); reviews (even just pe- riodical) have stage codes 90.*. ...
Two types of people in this world: 1.ASCII is more important than speed and accuracy. 2. Speed and accuracy it more important than ASCII. Computers think...
hjwoudenberg@...
May 23, 2003 2:12 am
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Hi, ASCII vs binary discussions really don't belong in this ISO8601 group. How you represent a date in your program's internal database, or in a network ...
Hi, ... The most peoples don't think such absolute decisions, rather they make a decision in dependent of the current requirement. ... A computer don't think,...
[2003-05-23] Hereby note that off topic postings will henceforth be treated to moderator action. Additionally note (this applies to the stuff a few weeeks ago)...
While ISO 8601 is language-independent, it cannot replace dates or times in any languages. I have created a new page "Numbers, Dates and Time in English,...
Justin, I have a page on Japanese Emperor dates: http://www.i18nguy.com/l10n/emperor-date.html But I disagree with your premise that there are situations where...
Do you plan to make a proposal for the ISO number standard that uses "123 456 789.012 345" and "123 456 789,012 345" for numbers which is the space ( ) as a...
... 8601 can't be ... is 8601 or ... format. ... You may have misunderstood. I did not say that there are situations where 8601 can't be used. YYYY-MM-DD need...
I understood you. If you send me truncated dates, and don't tell me the format, then we don't have a mutual agreement.... My suggestion is to add somewhere,...
