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Probably because their pint = 16FlOz to match 1lb = 16Oz, whereas the
imperial pint = 20flOz.
And that could be due to a pint of water (at stp, I presume) weighing 1lb
exactly in one of the systems (which I'm not sure now).
In the UK a gallon of water (8 pints)
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 at 08:57:23, Bill Cable wrote:
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Probably because their pint = 16FlOz to match 1lb = 16Oz, whereas the
imperial pint = 20flOz.
And that could be due to a pint of water (at
On 14 Jan 2006, at 19:08, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
The Japanese though being supremely logical, use 2006/02/01 for Feb
first, I believe. Great for programmers!
Hmm, what else should it be used for if not Feb.1st?
2nd Jan
George
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.. and the USA date format is totally confusing.
01/02/2006 is January 2nd whereas most of the world treat it as
February
1st.
It's pretty logcial though,they just write it as they speak it:
January second two thousand six
as unfortunaltely, they are burdened (ha!) with then english
Dilwyn Jones writes:
.. and the USA date format is totally confusing.
01/02/2006 is January 2nd whereas most of the world treat it as
February
1st.
It's pretty logcial though,they just write it as they speak it:
January second two thousand six
as unfortunaltely, they are burdened (ha!)
Hi Dilwyn,
I suspect (unless this doesn't work on Ralf's system) that he may have
seen the 'First day of week (0=sunday, 6=saturday)' prompt and not
realised he could enter any number in that range - 1 for monday, 2 for
tuesday and so on. Option 3 does not allow you to specify start day at
Hi Dilwyn,
you should remind, that the start of the week in Germany is at a monday. The
program just lets you choose sunday (as in USA) or saturday (??? don't know
where).
Cheers...Ralf R.
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Την Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:05:16 -0500,ο(η) Ralf Reköndt
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Hi Dilwyn,
you should remind, that the start of the week in Germany is at a monday.
The
program just lets you choose sunday (as in USA) or saturday (??? don't
know
where).
I don't know about Germany but
Hi Phoebus,
in Germany, the week starts at Monday, and I believe, we are not the only
one. There is no difference between work and calendar week.
Cheers...Ralf R.
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From: Phoebus R. Dokos
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Calendar
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Την Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:40:20 -0500,ο(η) Ralf Reköndt
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Hi Phoebus,
in Germany, the week starts at Monday, and I believe, we are not the only
one. There is no difference between work and calendar week.
I have always been surprised about
Την Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:21:23 -0500,ο(η) Joachim Van der Auwera
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Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Την Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:40:20 -0500,ο(η) Ralf Reköndt
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Hi Phoebus,
in Germany, the week starts at Monday, and I believe, we are not the
only
Hi Phoebus,
There I found that per international standard Monday is the first day of
the week, however NOT for religious purposes. If you are a practicing
Christian or Jew theoretically at least your first day is Sunday. (Hence
why the name of Monday in Greek means Second)
but not for the US
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 at 15:58:53, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
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Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:08:41 -0500,() Ralf Reköndt
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I've seen it used in the USA (IRS forms actually - that's the tax guys
for
the uninitiated) to denote January 2nd.
Then of
On 14 Jan 2006 at 19:04, Tony Firshman wrote:
(...)
.. and the USA date format is totally confusing.
01/02/2006 is January 2nd whereas most of the world treat it as February
1st.
It's pretty logcial though,they just write it as they speak it:
January second two thousand six
as
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 at 13:36:26, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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Also available is the QaLendar 2006. This is a QL-orientated calendar
you can download, in Word DOC format, and includes picturesof some
well known QL personalities (but don't let that put you off!). PDF
format
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