Several have expressed dislike of DST changes, but it's time, this weekend. 2004-04-04, all countries on the "North American' DST plan switch, oncluding the...
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BUDAI Andrew
bandi@...
Apr 3, 2004 1:31 am
... From: johnmsteele To: ISO8601@yahoogroups.com Sent: 2004 04 03, (Saturday) 07:43 Subject: [ISO8601] Spring Forward, happy campers Several have expressed...
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Morris, Mike
Mike.Morris@...
Apr 3, 2004 1:46 am
I'm not particularly a fan of daylight savings either, but in fairness, I'd like to point out that: * Taiwan is at only 25 degrees N latitude, where...
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NGUYEN Adam
ali0917
Apr 3, 2004 1:56 am
... Well, China covers a greater area of latitude and they don't do DST/Summer Time either. It doesn't really have to do with the latitude of the country in...
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NGUYEN Adam
ali0917
Apr 3, 2004 2:33 am
... Iran switches forward around this time (either last Sunday or this upcoming Sunday) because I know they switch back in the end of September......
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John M. Steele
johnmsteele
Apr 3, 2004 2:41 am
Alaska does, Hawaii doesn't. I'm not sure about Antarctica. Latitude does make a big difference. Near the equator, there is very little change in the length of...
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Morris, Mike
Mike.Morris@...
Apr 3, 2004 2:44 am
... You're probably right, I'm certainly not familiar with those specifics (I'm no expert on time in general, I'm just a "lurker" here :-) I really didn't...
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John M. Steele
johnmsteele
Apr 3, 2004 3:16 am
The Iranians use their own calendar which keeps the spring equinox on the same day. It is synchronized to the Gregorian calendar plus or minus one day. They...
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NGUYEN Adam
ali0917
Apr 3, 2004 4:12 am
... Well, DST won't affect me anyway, as I go to sleep after the clocks change anyway......
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NGUYEN Adam
ali0917
Apr 3, 2004 4:17 am
... Oh. I forgot about that. They have three calendars in use: Persian, Islamic/Hijri, and Gregorian. Islamic is only used for religious purposes. Gregorian is...
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johnmsteele
Apr 3, 2004 2:23 pm
... At one level, it is not very complex at all. It is a 365/366 day calendar. The first six months have a 31 day length, the next six 30 in a leap year. The...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 3, 2004 9:41 pm
Indeed, I understand that originally "noon" was "nines" (or was that "nones"), it was nine hours after sunrise -- i.e. 15:00 (or so). ... undisputable fact,...
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Greg
erutus1
Apr 5, 2004 10:43 pm
Hi all, I need some help please. Can anyone tell me if 8601 or any other ISO standard provides a method to determine in which month a week falls, in the same...
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Tex Texin
textexin
Apr 6, 2004 12:51 am
Greg, I would favor doing what is practical and meaningful for your user community and not worry about the standard in this case. I would also question whether...
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John M. Steele
johnmsteele
Apr 6, 2004 5:22 am
I don't know of a standard. There seem to be several different conventions used by different people. Except for February, months never have a integral numbers...
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Tex Texin
textexin
Apr 6, 2004 5:51 am
nice note John! tex...
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Pete Forman
pete_forman
Apr 6, 2004 1:55 pm
... You might solve your problem by keeping a carry for the start of each month. The carry has metrics from the last week of the previous month of the days...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 6, 2004 7:37 pm
<snip> ... </snip> On my last job, we had several reports that were weekly, monthly, quarterly. As I recall, we didn't tie the weeks to a "week number", we...
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nsaa
Apr 6, 2004 8:07 pm
... This may not ansver your question (very well answered by others), but it may be helpfull to visualize year, month and dates in on (Excel) sheet Take a look...
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NGUYEN Adam
ali0917
Apr 7, 2004 9:41 am
... The French Revolutionary Calendar was similar. They had 12 months of 30 days each, followed by five or six special days that all had names for each day....
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johnmsteele
Apr 7, 2004 5:10 pm
... months ... names ... each. Time ... 100 ... each 'minute'. This calendar probably deserves the title, "Most Hated Calendar Ever Officially Adopted." It was...
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Greg
erutus1
Apr 17, 2004 9:01 pm
Hi all, I need some help please (and this is no April fools joke). Can you tell me if 8601 or any other ISO standard provides a method to determine which month...
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jusjih
Apr 19, 2004 5:23 am
... As far as I know, ISO 8601 DOES NOT determine which month a week falls in the same way 8601 talks about the first week of a year. It means that what you...
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jusjih
May 2, 2004 7:51 am
Most standards, including those of ISO, require payments to purchase paper or electronic copies. They can be expensive. The Chinese National Standards (CNS) of...
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softhive
May 6, 2004 9:40 pm
Could someone refer me to the subject. Any code is appreciated. Thank you! Max....
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ali0917
May 6, 2004 11:14 pm
... Are you speaking of R2000-01-01/2001-01-01, where the time period which begins on 2000-01-01 and ends on 2001-01-01 keeps recurring or are you referring to...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 1, 2004 2:10 am
2004-05-31T13:21:35Z or 2004-05-31t13:21:35z Syntax YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ or YYYY_MM_DDthh:mm:ssz ISO-8601 4.4 Characters used in the representation "Note1...
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piebaldconsult
Jun 2, 2004 12:16 am
... be ... No. Consumers get presented some other format. ... Of course. ... letters be ... No. And they're not anyway. ... time and ... Huh? I think uppercase...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 6, 2004 5:33 am
See attachment for a word copy. Any Date Globalize your e-Business The need: IBM ¾ “Globalizing your e-business is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. As...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 6, 2004 6:23 am
Used on the fastest PC the Mac G5 IBM's mainframes IBM's midrange computers Soon on IBM's UNIX computers All of these run Linux. These are the first CPUs to...
