Johnny On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 12:36 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2011/8/11 Tom Davies <[email protected]>: > > Hi :) > > Ahhah, great. I prefer dashes - because after reading too much for too > > long my > > eyes get a bit muddled when people use / and dots still seem to confuse > > obscure > > Windows systems sometimes. I was told that the / was the European Standard > > but > > if - are used in one other country then that helps me argue the case with my > > boss. > > I though that ”/” was the US standard… Here (Sweden) we follow the > ISO8601, except for time. Seems like we use dots instead of colons. "/" with mm/dd/yyyy is the normal US standard (sometimes mm.dd.yyyy because "/" is mis interpreted in file names). Most Americans who have dealt with international trade are comfortable with either US or ISO styles and for dates. > Wish we and the rest of the world could just adapt the ISO 8601. There > is a reason for why it was created… And personally I use it all the > time. And of course every ”dygn” (sorry, there is no English > translation for that word – yet…) is 24 hours, so why that silly 12 > hour thing? If all analogue watches were made 24 hours, you could very > easily also use it as a compass, at least when you can see the sun (if > the hour hand point to the sun, then 24, or rather 0, will point to > north, 6 to east, 12 to south and 18 to west). How can it be easier > than that? When I was in elementary school we were taught a 12 hour cycle with AM and PM to determine if it was morning or afternoon/evening. The US military, I believe, uses the 24 hour clock because 0900 is always in the morning while evening equivalent 2100 is always in the evening/night, much less likely to be misunderstood. > > Regards > > Johnny Rosenberg > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > 2011-08-11 12:36:51 > > > > > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Thu, 11 August, 2011 11:18:39 > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Date Format in Writer > > > > 2011/8/11 <[email protected]>: > >> To avoid confusion between the mm.dd.yyyy and the dd.mm.yyyy date formats > >> can > >>we have the less ambiguous > >> "International" > > > > It IS international, it's ISO 8601 (and also Swedish standard, lucky > > me… ;P)! Except that there should be dashes, not dots: yyyy-mm-dd. > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > Johnny Rosenberg > > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > > >> yyyy.mm.dd format included as an option (default?) in the fields for > >> Writer? > >> > >> -- > >> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > >> Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > >> deleted > >> > >> > > > > -- > > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > -- > > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
