"But I use "dd mon yyyy" on my checks. Great for human reading, lousy for computer processing."
For quite some time now, Canadian cheques have a YYYY-MM-DD mask imprinted as a not-so-subtle hint to use the international standard date format. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 6, 2016, at 07:32, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 6:58 PM, J R <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Don't know about "people friendly mm/dd/yy format". At least half the >> world use dd/mm. And more than one third of dates can't be assumed with >> certainty unless there is at least one certain other for guidance. >> Personally, I find yyyy-mm-dd the most friendly. (Much to the disquietude >> of my family.) > > I use two forms. I personally prefer the yyyy-mm-dd format > (RCF3339/ISO8601), bugs the crud out of people at work. But I use "dd mon > yyyy" on my checks. Great for human reading, lousy for computer processing. > > > >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On Sep 5, 2016, at 18:53, Clark Morris <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> [Default] On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 05:18:30 -0700 (PDT), in >>> bit.listserv.ibm-main "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 11:25:17 AM UTC+2, Jay wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> I currently looking for a way to read "Files generated on Tape(3490) >> with IDCAMS BACKUP on Z/VSE" on my Z/OS. >>>> >>>> You pretty much cannot - Backup/Restore is a feature unique to zVSE and >> uses data set formats, a tape format, and end-of-tape handling that is not >> known to z/OS. You may want to resort to more standard processes like >> REPRO, Export/Import, or FTP... >>> >>> Another instance of "Dumb" Operating System, now VSE being more >>> capable than its more expensive counterpart. It start with the dumb >>> system being able to accept the system date in people friendly >>> mm/dd/yy format (presumably now mm/dd/yyyy format) while the expensive >>> operating system required yy.ddd, year day-of-year. The dumb system >>> can handle FBA devices. I am certain z/VSE users and those who have >>> converted can come up with other examples. >>> >>> Clark Morris >>>> Horst Sinram - STSM, z/OS Workload and Capacity Management >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it > once. -- Karl Lehenbauer > Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
