On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
Which is the ISO standard (number 8601) for dates for a very good
reason.
Dave...
[who actually prefers MMDD because it sorts numerically]
ISO8601 allows MMDD too (IIRC).
Tony
At 11:43 20/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
Which is the ISO standard (number 8601) for dates for a very good
reason.
I thought I'd look this up, but the BSI want 50 quid for a copy.
I appreciate this is how they make money to fund the standards work but it
seems a tad steep for the casual
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote:
I thought I'd look this up, but the BSI want 50 quid for a copy.
I appreciate this is how they make money to fund the standards work but it
seems a tad steep for the casual viewer such as myself.
Anyone know of a free online resource ?
Useful
At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:37:32 + (GMT), AEF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote:
I thought I'd look this up, but the BSI want 50 quid for a copy.
I appreciate this is how they make money to fund the standards work
but it seems a tad steep for the
At 06:42 21/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:37:32 + (GMT), AEF [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Useful Summary: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
Standard: ftp://ftp.qsl.net/pub/g1smd/8601v03.pdf
This one seems to be a second edition although the
This site seems to confirm it tho:
http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm
Hmmm, 11 reasons to use this format:
5 of these reasons are "Because it makes it easier for me to write software
if you do" which don't carry much weight IMNSHO
However, in the spirit of standardisation, I'd like
"Jonathan Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This site seems to confirm it tho:
http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm
Hmmm, 11 reasons to use this format:
5 of these reasons are "Because it makes it easier for me to write software
if you do" which don't carry much weight
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:23:59AM +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
At 11:43 20/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
Which is the ISO standard (number 8601) for dates for a very good
reason.
I thought I'd look this up, but the BSI want 50 quid for a copy.
I appreciate this is how they make
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Marcel Grunauer wrote:
Jonathan Peterson writes:
Please use:
ISO planet code, ISO country code, POSTCODE, Building Number[, apartment
number][, business name]
[snippage]
Peterson, Jonathan
Earth, UK, W1H 6LT, 40, Ideashub
2001-03-21
That works for the UK,
On Tue Mar 20 15:13:07 2001, David H. Adler wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:34:06PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
You are Michael Schwern, and I claim your m4d h41rkut skillz.
Oh, get real. Schwern has *no* relation to haircuts *at all*...
- Forwarded message from Michael G
Quoting Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Please use:
ISO planet code, ISO country code, POSTCODE, Building Number[, apartment
number][, business name]
Please move to one of the former USSR countries, they write their
addresses there like that.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, you wrote:
Human postmen can do amazing
things, like deliver letters addresses to "John Smith, the house with the
blue door, near the flower shop in the main street in Newtownards".
blimey .. he really _IS_ a martian .. must be ... down here on Earth the
postmen can't
LASTNAME, [FIRSTNAME|FIRST INITIAL]
and if you don't have a last name???
I have three friends who are surnameless... their credit cards have a "." as
a surname because the bank computers couldn't handle a lack of surname.
On 2001, Mar, 21, Wed Pauley, Marley wrote:
That would work if 'significant' was well defined in relation to names,
but it isn't. It works with dates because 'significant' has a well
defined meaning in relation to numerical quantities.
I wonder what Larry thinks about this.
Later.
Mark.
Oopsy daisy
$job--; #not my fault!
If anyone wants to employ me please say so. Will wear suit for food. I do
management strategy marchitecture stuff. Or Perl if necessary. Or Solaris
sysadmin if desperate.
Laters,
Jon
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At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:19:57 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of my collegues asked me about Perl training courses in the U.K.
To be honest, we have no idea what is good, what is bad, etc, and so I
suggested asking you lot.
We've been looking through a Learning Tree
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote:
On 2001, 21, Mar, Wed Stevens, Michael wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:19:57PM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
One of my collegues asked me about Perl training courses in the U.K.
Wasn't there some kerazy scheme to get london.pm doing courses?
Sorry.
[Continuing off-topic - not a surprise on London.pm, I'm sure (I thought Mr.
Cantrell's [ot] the other day denoted 'on-topic' :--)]
From: Marty Pauley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
In some countries the 'family name' is actually defined by your
job, location, or other mutable property. It used to
Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is what I think they would need to learn:
a) Get hit over the head a bit with my, local, strict, good programming
practices. Maybe a quick refresher on how arrays, hashes and suchlike
really work. (In terms of passing between
On 21 Mar 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
d) Debugging
Amen
MBM
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:31:06PM -, Matthew Jones wrote:
What do you need? If you can get three or four people interested in
doing the same course and can supply a suitable room, then Iterative
would be only too happy to help you out.
I'm interested if there are courses on offer.
I'm interested if there are courses on offer. There's only so much
you can do with just yourself and a pile of O'Reilly books.
I'd love to help, but we're not in a position to offer public courses
yet - the cost of hiring rooms and PCs is too prohibitive.
Who said anything about doing
On 2001, 21, Mar, Wed, Cross, Dave wrote:
At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:19:57 + (GMT), Mark Fowler wrote:
One of my collegues asked me about Perl training courses in the
U.K.
As far as I can see, none of the scheduled courses in the UK are
much cop.
What do you need? If
I'm interested if there are courses on offer. There's only
so much you can do with just yourself and a pile of O'Reilly books.
The mind boggles ;)
No, not the *mind*! ;)
Oh, I forgot to mention the Prairie Squid (de-beaked, of course).
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:19:57PM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
One of my collegues asked me about Perl training courses in the U.K. To
be honest, we have no idea what is good, what is bad, etc, and so I
suggested asking you lot.
NetThink will be running some courses soon. Don't want to
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM -, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
What are we saying here, Michael Schwern is that Alien Drag Queen ?
You know... that would explain a lot.. :-)
dha
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I know you said this:
Mark Fowler wrote:
I'd like a course to make *sure* they do
but courses aside, books are still good. In particular, the Andrew L Johnson
book ("Elements of Programming with Perl", as rec'd by davorg) is really
handy when it comes to being:
a) [...] hit over the head a
Mark Fowler wrote:
One of my collegues asked me about Perl training courses in the U.K. To
be honest, we have no idea what is good, what is bad, etc, and so I
suggested asking you lot.
The London Open Source Convention will have Perl tutorials. If only I could
say precisely when it would
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:15:17AM -, Dean S Wilson wrote:
Anyone submitting anything for this?
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2001/
Yup, I've been approached for some tutorials for that.
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:22:34PM +, celia wrote:
/ me delurks - don't worry, you won't see much of me round here :)
But... why??
dha
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David H. Adler wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:22:34PM +, celia wrote:
/ me delurks - don't worry, you won't see much of me round here :)
But... why??
Why I delurked, or why you won't see much of me on this list? The answer to
both is that I'll only post if I have something useful
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