Perhaps I should clarify - the dates were like this at school: 9-8-2004 Go figure. I should get a lively response shortly, schools and teachers do not normally...
This was a casual observation but it just became important. A call from my daughter's school enquires about precisely this, as their task is difficult enough...
NASA sometimes uses dates like '2000 January 1' on their site. It's better to put the weekdays after the calander date, as it means less than the calander date...
It's a good topic for wwdates... Personally, since DOW is redundant information, (easily calculated from the date, but useful as a parity check), I would want...
Use the right tool for the right job. ISO8601 is essentially a _written_ protocol. It seems (as you've found) that trying to verbalize it is difficult. But...
You got all of that right. The only thing I have against this is that that letter 'T' between the date and time needn't be used in a setting where a _person_...
And what occured to me after I posted that is that when verbalizing, you're using one language or another, rather than the more or less universal language of...
Very true. I don't think I've said aloud a date in a different format besides 'Monday, the first of January, two thousand and one' (of course, not always...
... doesn't ... Actually the separator matters even less to the computer, and ISO8601 prefers that it not be present, it's only there to aid in human ...
Shouldn't international time be in metric since all other measurements are in metric? Years, months, days, minutes, and seconds aren't metric. :-) ... ...
OK. Now, you're getting into decimalised time, where the day is the main unit of time. I've heard of and seen such notations before. The French Revolutionary...
... Sure. Pick one base unit from this list: year, month, day, hour, minute, second. Actually the only choice is seconds in SI. Today's date is 1094.5 Ms...
... From: Pete Forman To: ISO8601@yahoogroups.com Sent: 2004 09 07 (Tuesday) 17:10 Subject: Re: [ISO8601] International Time ... In my IBM Westchester (Los...
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... measurements ... Actually, the second is the official time unit in the SI (official name of "metric system". Further, minutes, hours, and days are ...
Decimalization of time units is exactly what I meant by "there's no zealot like a convert". It's not worth the effort. (It'll never fly, Wilbur.) ... But don't...
For "everyday use" I agree with your remarks. In engineering and scientific calculations, velocities such as km/h are routinely converted to m/s. The primary...
[2004-Sep-08] The 2004-09-05 and 2004-Sep-05 format is used a lot by astronomers, and has been for at least 200 years now. At astronomical meetings it is quite...
You reminded me: I was in an airport waiting for the train shuttle between terminals and a digital sign showed 5:00 and I thought it was intended as the time...
Oh, man, there are different sign languages too? (The implication of "American Sign" hadn't hit me.) And how do we help the braille community to enjoy these...
Yes. There is British Sign Language, Australian, Japanese, etc. Braille? Hmm. I went to a school for visually-impaired people, but never learned Braille, as...
... Yes, there are some regional differences. If you look at this link, the last paragraph or 2 on contractions and overloading of symbols will give you some ...
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