-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:43:32 +0100 Thorsten Wilms <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 18:52 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: > > > Why dont we forget the ISO naming and just stick with something that is > > Human-readable? ;) > > The from big to small order is really not difficult to remember and > handle. But currently I have my head elsewhere. > > > > Instead, for months we use "Jan/Feb/Mar.../Dec" . And yrs/dates are > > numerical YYYY/DD? > > Numerical dates are short and make calculations more obvious (or am I > alone in having to translate month names to numbers in my mind first, > where I don't have a direct mapping for all months, so need to count > steps in some cases?) > > And then we would have the question which format using names, exactly? > > I too count out the months when the name appears. Whether numbers or names are used, the format should be standard. I can write as in the U.S. Military 12 December 2010; as in American writing December 12, 2010; as in Europe and the rest of the world 2010 December 12. Then there are the abbreviations of the months, two instead of four digit years, etc. - -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM/5uYAAoJEFNEIRz9dxbAvdIH/3eajpRMVTxaxwPymIbdPCHs JOf5LrjBPfZ2X+4zVYlLeb3N3qkYDHHC3xc+XX6tG19f72vJoVgUYXhymHhAlVfA m8QSrYV+cAdOd/ZlyFKWIOPGXI80t9pMMcldis72cqrnY46TkC5s6bgAGNp9igD8 WK5im/B65TD2fcE2hRn7k9vz56KILwf8DS4cLLaCtqex5Dn+/v9orT9KjWKJx22b 52siDpL816/As6nL2ksntOMRB++p7TeEv3ev3fOUIp9TGwxbTcW144SaznJTFwu9 0KVR+GV95ejIK88fYj+gWzvytYBkEjOUZQVuJ4ZzpkEaoERN1DlXxlpoZYCVdIM= =dCVc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
