On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 03:07, John Peacock wrote: > Rick Measham wrote: > > In fact the only unsolvable I've had so far is with a phrase like "It > > was twelve fifteen". This could mean it was the year 1215 or that it was > > a quarter past 12. Deciding which seems to be impossible! > > Except that I think, in colloquial English at least, no one refers to the year > as "twelve fifteen" except verbally.
OK, is "It was nineteen forty-seven" 1947-00-00 or 19:47:00? Most probably it is the former, however there are coutries who always use 24 hour time notation IIRC and thus screw us. Of course if there's more info in the sentence were fine: "It was nineteen forty-seven and twelve seconds" 19:47:12 "The calendar said it was nineteen forty-seven" 1947-00-00 Thanks for your interest. Please take a minute to send me some test data :) Cheers! Rick
