... No, and that's my point. Sunday is the first day of the week in western calendars. weekend generally means the days I have off, it is the end of (or more ...
Hi, ... From a religious point (Jewish and Christian) the Saturday is the end of the week (the seventh day). Therefore the week start Sunday from this sight....
Peter, thanks. I didn't write the first para, I was arguing against it, saying "weekend is the last 2 days of the week" is incorrect. Also, we need to...
BUDAI Endre A. S. says: Firstly, I refuse to start from the premise that everything originated in the USA is world standard and to be emulated without...
... Absolutely. To ISO8601 and data interchange, this only matters IF one is using the week-date representation, for date code, material logistics scheduling,...
... Many people I know end up using US English and even US slang (!) in an area that it doesn't fit (like international communication) -- even if they are not...
... industry ... would you ... Actually, the electronics industry (and a lot of other US industries) are "secretly metric" and translate metric units into...
... OK. Makes sense. I heard that the automobile industry 'went metric' in the 1980s... What about date/time formats? Is this similar, with the electronics...
... industry 'went ... I worked in the internal Electronics division of a US auto manufacturer, although I'm retired now. The company was already metric, and...
... All very interesting information. I agree about the date in words is the next-best option besides YYYYMMDD. The problems begin when non-native and...
... It could be said that the whole world, including the U.S., went "internally metric" when the definition of English and Imperial units got linked to the...
... units ... definition. ... It is true the inch ( foot, and yard, etc) was slightly redefined then. The "old" inch was define by 39.37" = 1 m. The modern...
Hi, ... Unfortunately. There is the ISO 31-0 since about 30 years: Decimal separator is comma (preferred) or point, thousand separator is space. This rule is...
... space. ... Peter, excellent clarification. The same is written into the International System of Units (SI) which defines the metric system. So far as I...
... Is there any documentation available that the decimal point(.) is a Japanese standard? I know that in the past, I have received specifications and test...
Well, the Japanese probably wouldn't change it as they use a , or thousands. Go to http://www.geocities.com/jusjih and look for the links under 'Japan (JP)'....
Hi, ... Microsoft Windows contain a database with such informations. There is a web version: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/nlsweb/default.asp Note, this...
... From: NGUYEN Adam To: ISO8601@yahoogroups.com Sent: 2004 03 04, Thursday 11:29 Subject: Re: [ISO8601] weekends (was Re: DayLight Savings Time Changes) ... ...
BUDAI Andrew
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Andrew, Hi. I think that independent of whether the wwdates group takes off, the discussion of language issues is inappropriate here. I think if you post...
Visit the keepers of the TZ time-zone file at: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm They have a data base for all current time zones, including daylight ...
Has anybody used or looked seriously at TAI64 time format? It is more of an internal representation like "Unix time" than an ISO8601 competitor, although it...
Maybe this would be nice for internal timestamp representations but, not on something that will be read my humans. For human use, something similar to ISO...
... representations ... something ... be much ... If humans have to read it directly, you are, of course, correct. However, there is an alternate point of...
OK, obviously, no one was interested in the TAI 64 format. However, I was really trying to start a discussion of leap second handling, and TAI64 was a specific...
Zzzzz... huh? wuh? Oh you stopped talking? I fail to see how that has anything to do with ISO 8601. ISO 8601 specifies formats for time data interchange; as...
... John is right that it is nevertheless a problem for software that allowing 61 seconds (0-60) because a minute may sometimes have a 61st, allows erroneous ...
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