Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
I'm not constrained by the limitations of the ISO standard. All you really
showed was an alternate display format, which could easily be Y10K compliant.
Agreed. But your statement read "today is....", and I pointed
out that this is merely an opinion, because there are
alternative ways of expressing the date. My nose was rubbed into
this when I visited a mall in Halifax; we saved our receipts to
get the tax back, and noticed that they showed three different
ways of expressing the date. English speaking countries tend to
use dd/mm/year, whereas in the US mm/dd/year is more frequent.
As to the stardate, you surely know that it is a function of
location. If we were to implement it for general use, we'd be
creating a real mess for our descendants when they go for a
quick weekend jaunt to Proxima Centauri <g>
020080905 also sorts as one field. How one displays the field does not mean it
had to be stored that way.
Unfortunately I've seen many programs where what you see is what
you get, and they didn't even bother to convert to packed or
binary to save space.
Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
on, but today is 09/05/02008. Why is everyone waiting?
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
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