By my experience, logic rarely catches on and tradition usually wins out...
> On Nov 13, 2013, at 7:11 PM, Douglas Vogt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good comment and a logical alternative to the confusion. If people use MS > Office and wish to use this format, it must be changed in Control Panel. When > the pattern is added, the dates in Excel, Word, etc. default to the new > format, at least the short date. Open Office seems to be able to handle any > format regardless of Control Panel settings. > > But would logic catch on? > > > > From: Thaddeus Weakley <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:43 PM > Subject: Re: 08:09:10 11/12/13 > > I too strongly agree with Paul. The YYYY/MM/DD format sorts numerically; > something that I gravitated to when a lad with database set-up and > administration. > > This format also seems the most logical to me. In the grand scope of things, > the millenium, century, year, month, day typically take precedence in that > order. > > And now that we increasingly are interacting with a global market - a > consistant, logical, and readily understood data format seems as important as > ever.... > > Thad Weakley > American expat in Montreal, Quebec > > > > ---- Sunclocks North America <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > ============= > > This has always been a pet peeve of mine! > > All of these differing date formats are confusing, as > you can never really be sure > > which one people are using. Here in Canada, it's > even worse because some people put > > the month first like in the USA and others put the day > first and yet others put the > > year first! Nobody can be sure if something like > 10/11/12 means October 11th 2012, > > November 10th 2012 or November 12th 2010! At > least now that we're in 2013, some of > > that confusion is gone for the next 87 years. > > I think that the best way which everyone in the world > understands is to start a four > > digit year: yyyy/mm/dd, and all the confusion goes away > with the simple addition of two > > characters. Plus the dates can be easily sorted > numerically. It's pretty much the > > only date format I ever use unless I spell out the > month. > > > > Paul Ratto > > SunClocks North America > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Peter Mayer > Discipline of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) > School of History & Politics > http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/historypolitics/ > The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 > Ph : +61 8 8313 5609 > Fax : +61 8 8313 3443 > e-mail: [email protected] > CRICOS Provider Number 00123M > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and > contains > information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If > you are not > the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply > email and > immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or > reproduction of this > email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is > strictly > prohibited. No representation is made that this email or any > attachments > are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is > the > responsibility of the recipient. > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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