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OnderwerpRe[2]: TFI Website
Aan:Han Maenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Han Maenen,
Thank you for your comments. We will take them into account in our
future press statements and documentation.
Best regards,
Tobacco Free Initiative
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Subject: Re: TFI Website
Author: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15-Oct-2000 21:33
"Director-General's Response to the FCTC Public
Hearings
English -RTF format
Fran�ais -RTF format
The World Health Organization (WHO) will conduct two days of public
hearings on the proposed Framework Convention on Tobacco Control from 12-13
October 2000. The hearings, a first in WHO's history, will take place from 8
a.m. to 8 p.m., at the Geneva International Conference Centre, Geneva,
Switzerland."
Dear sir, madam,
I am a non smoker and therefore I support what you are doing in the
field of smoking. What I do not support is the imposition of outdated things on
your international readers, only because these things are being used in
Britain and the USA. It is about the am/pm time format which you use in your
announcements, like the one cited above. I do not want to see this
medieval
leftover spread around the globe.
This form is better suited to international announcements:
The hearings, a first in WHO's history, will take place from 08:00 to
20:00 hours, at the Geneva International Conference Centre, Geneva,
Switzerland.
This is according to the international standard ISO 8601. You are an
international body, so please use international standards. The British
and the Americans can just as well learn to understand this way of telling
and writing times (and dates).
Please stop supporting such non-international standards and formats,
H. Maenen, The Netherlands
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