Re: [ccp4bb] Today ...

2012-12-21 Thread Tom Murray-Rust
Hi Juergen, Your scheme as printed has two J's - so January and July are indistinguishable! I would suggest the letters should instead be JFMAYULGSOND. Happy apocalypse! Tom On 21 Dec 2012, at 01:52, Bosch, Juergen jubo...@jhsph.edu wrote: May I introduce you to another fool proof way:

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2012-12-21 Thread Ian Clifton
Tom Murray-Rust tom.murray.r...@gmail.com writes: Hi Juergen, Your scheme as printed has two J's - so January and July are indistinguishable! I would suggest the letters should instead be JFMAYULGSOND. Happy apocalypse! Tom On 21 Dec 2012, at 01:52, Bosch, Juergen jubo...@jhsph.edu

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2012-12-21 Thread David Schuller
On neither case does an alphanumeric sort coincide with a chronological sort. The obvious solution is to petition to have the months renamed alphabetically. On 12/21/12 03:23, Tom Murray-Rust wrote: Hi Juergen, Your scheme as printed has two J's - so January and July are indistinguishable!

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2012-12-21 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Hi David, on a computer I agree 20121221 is the way to go (but even then you could still do ls -lta), but on Eppendorf tubes that is precious real estate for other important numbers or letters hence the 12d21 :-) And thanks for catching my double J this was just a test if somebody would

[ccp4bb] Today ...

2012-12-20 Thread Phil Evans
… is 20.12.2012 Happy Christmas everyone! Phil

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2012-12-20 Thread James Foadi
personal web page: http://www.jfoadi.me.uk From: Phil Evans p...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2012, 11:50 Subject: [ccp4bb] Today ... … is 20.12.2012 Happy Christmas everyone! Phil

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2012-12-20 Thread Mark J van Raaij
and 8 days ago it was 121212, the mirror image of 212121, one of our favourite spacegroups. On 20 Dec 2012, at 12:50, Phil Evans wrote: … is 20.12.2012 Happy Christmas everyone! Phil

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2012-12-20 Thread case
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012, Phil Evans wrote: … is 20.12.2012 No, it's actually 12.20.2012, kind of a palindrome. Happy Christmas everyone! And Merry Christmas to those on the left side of the pond! ...dac

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2012-12-20 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Merry/Happy Christmas, Happy Your Favourite Festival/Celebration and Happy New Year! Raji On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:44 AM, case c...@biomaps.rutgers.edu wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2012, Phil Evans wrote: … is 20.12.2012 No, it's actually 12.20.2012, kind of a palindrome. Happy Christmas

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2012-12-20 Thread Edward A. Berry
No, No- in scientific circles we go from MSB on the left to LSB on the right: 2012 12 20 (still a sort of palindrome). as in Release: 2012-12-19 Classification: Lipid Transport Experiment: SOLUTION NMR Residue Count: 216 but right to left can be used if there is no

Re: [ccp4bb] Today ...

2012-12-20 Thread David Schuller
On 12/20/12 11:23, Edward A. Berry wrote: No, No- in scientific circles we go from MSB on the left to LSB on the right: 2012 12 20 (still a sort of palindrome). This is the best method if you are going to incorporate the date into a file name. That way alphanumeric and chronological

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2012-12-20 Thread Laurie Betts
OMG LOL Geeks! Dog bless you all!!! On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Bosch, Juergen jubo...@jhsph.edu wrote: May I introduce you to another fool proof way: 12d12 year-month-day This is in particular useful in a mixed lab with american and europeans labeling Eppendorf tubes differently. The