I work for a large American I.T. company. I recently submitted a suggestion to use ISO8601 for all dates on my company's globally accessible documents. Here is...
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Bob Neifert
bobneifert@...
Sep 5, 2000 5:12 pm
Confusion, as an objection, is the cainotophobic reaction to the proposition that one learn something one does not already know. In the case of something as...
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Bob Neifert
bobneifert@...
Sep 12, 2000 8:29 pm
Thanks, Kevin, for your thoughtful response. Your willingness to understand and consider something new are heartening and honorable. Date and time notation is...
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g1smd@...
Sep 14, 2000 8:59 pm
[2000-Sep-14] You may recall a proposal that surfaced late last year. It was proposed by Tony Blair, and others, to standardise usage of Date and Time on the ...
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Bob Hirsch
Bob@...
Sep 19, 2000 5:33 am
Greetings to Steve and the group. I expect I'm the most recent subscriber as I write. I'm already pretty enthusiastic for the 8601 format (with the possible ...
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John Walker
jfwalker@...
Sep 19, 2000 9:08 am
Hello Those of you into web development may find the following Javascript useful: http://321webliftoff.net/demo/isotimedatescript/de fault.html Regards, John...
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John Walker
jfwalker@...
Oct 2, 2000 9:04 am
Hello everyone A cross-browser version of the ISO date/time javascript is now available from: http://javascript.internet.com/clocks/iso- clock.html Regards, ...
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g1smd@...
Oct 4, 2000 11:00 pm
[2000-Oct-04] Hi All, The following is a copy of a message sent directly to me. This was in response to my message posted to <ISO8601@egroups.com> on ...
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rbirkby@...
Oct 17, 2000 3:39 pm
I remember reading a website saying that the ISO 8601 standard wasn't freely available and gave links to the working drafts of the standard. It seems to be...
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Aron Roberts
aron@...
Oct 19, 2000 9:34 pm
The International Press Telecommunications Council (ITPC)'s News Industry Text Format (NITF) is "a common platform for news services and newspapers to share...
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radon@...
Oct 24, 2000 7:08 pm
I've just read and re-read the ISO 8601 spec, and it seems to me like there is no provision for specifying dates before the common era (BC or BCE). One...
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Karl Ove Hufthammer
huftis@...
Oct 24, 2000 9:13 pm
... From: <radon@...> To: <ISO8601@egroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 9:04 PM Subject: [ISO8601] How to represent BC (BCE) ... The 1998...
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Justin JIH
jusjih@...
Oct 25, 2000 12:16 am
... like ... (BC ... to ... 1st, ... 104 ... 8601? ... ISO8601 1997 2nd edition has an added note under 5.2.1: "the representation of the Gregorian years...
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g1smd@...
Nov 3, 2000 12:27 am
... [2000-Nov-01] Hi, Several web sites say that ISO standards aren't available online, however the ISO 8601 standard seems to be a major exception. This is...
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g1smd@...
Nov 3, 2000 12:27 am
... [ -- For full dates I prefer BC 0001 January 01 .... Ian -- ] ... [2000-Nov-02] Hi, As others have aleady pointed out, the 1998/1999 revision of ISO 8601 ...
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g1smd@...
Nov 10, 2000 10:13 pm
... [2000-Nov-09] Hi, Many thanks for this information! I was aware that Far East countries often used Y-M-D formats, as I have seen this way on printed...
... the Norwegian ... Norwegian ... to accept ... want to follow ... 1) pupils in ... it's "wrong"[1], and 2) ... Norwegian can't ... writing dates ... correct...
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Karl Ove Hufthammer
huftis@...
Nov 12, 2000 7:49 pm
... From: "Justin JIH" <jusjih@...> To: <ISO8601@egroups.com> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 6:39 AM Subject: [ISO8601] Re: ISO 8601 vs...
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Justin JIH
jusjih@...
Nov 15, 2000 12:47 am
... reasons, ... except tradition, ... Based on common practice, it appears that most "American customary" month day year orders use slashes (/) while...
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Aron Roberts
aron@...
Nov 15, 2000 7:17 pm
In yet another instance of how ISO 8601 is 'bubbling up' in many different Internet standards and recommendations, the 'Dublin Core' metadata specification,...
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Justin JIH
jusjih@...
Nov 16, 2000 2:20 am
Tired of having to encounter mm/dd/yyyy in eGroups? I have just sent a suggestion to eGroups opposing continued use of all-numerical mm/dd/yyyy in versions of...
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Archie Medrano
amedrano@...
Nov 16, 2000 8:09 am
$ >What about 2011-07-12? Due to the four $ >number prefix this is instantly $ >recognisable as the ISO8601 format so $ >it MUST be the 12th of July 2011. $...
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Justin JIH
jusjih@...
Nov 17, 2000 7:09 am
... The term "century" is used in ISO 8601 5.2.1.1. I recognise there may be still a few flaws therein, like the term "century". Other flaws include but are...
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FrederickBloggs@...
Dec 1, 2000 12:25 pm
Dear All, How about the new PKZIP Suite for Windows. It only supports one date format -- MM/DD/YYYY! Despite being supposedly Windows 2000 compatible, it does...
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g1smd@...
Dec 2, 2000 12:25 am
... [2000-Dec-02] Thanks for that. How completely crazy. Several years ago I looked into the dates that were stored internally inside an archive file. I'm sure...
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Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson
thg@...
Dec 11, 2000 10:16 am
... My understanding of the standard is that it is only for the numerical representation of dates and NOT about how to spell out dates in different languages. ...
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Fred Bone
fred.bone@...
Dec 12, 2000 1:05 pm
... It says that that is not allowed. The "complete representation"; when specifying year-month-day is CCYYMMDD or CYY-MM-DD and the "complete representation";...
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Bob Neifert
bobneifert@...
Dec 12, 2000 10:56 pm
... <snip> ... You're right; the standard only covers numerical abbreviation. If you want to spell out Monday or Mon or Mo or December or Dec, then ISO8601...
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g1smd@...
Dec 16, 2000 11:08 pm
On 2000-Dec-12 Bob Neifert wrote(>): [2000-Dec-14] Hi, ... I should have been more clear in my original message, I suppose. I use the Year-Month-Day date...
