2000-11-24
The other day I got an e-mail from a woman in France (Metz) looking
genealogical information, who it turns out is a fourth cousin. She is a
journalist and commutes back and forth by train from Metz to Paris. What I
found of interest, is that her time/date stamp, which I copied below, is in
English and uses both the American date format and the am/pm time format.
From: kilopascal
To: CBC Communication
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 5:40 PM
Subject: RE: Schweisthal links
Even though it shows as coming from me to her, it is her machine that prints
it this way for use. When she responds I see the date/time stamp that her
machine generated. Mine prints as so:
From: CBC Communication
Sent: Thursday, 2000-11-23 19:21
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Schweisthal links
I don't know if she is sending this from Windows or something else. She
wrote in one of her e-mails: "...I am more Apple and Mac Os than Windows,
even if I used the 2 for my job (but more Mac for graphic creation).". But,
that shouldn't make a difference, or does it? I haven't asked her yet if
she set it up for this format, or if that is the default setting.
Does anyone know if operating systems sold in France (or elsewhere) default
to US English systems.
In another e-mail she asked: "just a blink from France! what hour ist it in
Ohio? and what day? here it's fryday 24, and the end of the day of work
:6.10 PM !
Sylvie
Here she distinctly wrote 6:10 PM instead of 18:10 h. I didn't think am/pm
was known in France.
This makes me feel that the promotion of US "culture" is having an effect
outside of the US.
Maybe Louis can explain what might be happening here.
John
