From: kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: February 14, 2001 13:19 Subject: [USMA:11005] Fw: Well, damn it, NASA ought to be metr [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] >----- Original Message ----- >From: "millitesla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, 2001-02-14 12:58 >> >> As for the date standard, ISO-8601 is a new standard, and one the whole >world can adopt at the same time. It is simple and concise. There is no >reason everyone can't follow its logic. It is also multilingual. ISO 8601, and its predecessor ISO 2014 have been around for almost a quarter of a century. Too many, entrusted with formatting the date, have been either ignorant of, or ignoring of, these rational standards. They did it, also, when writing the date for computers! Duncan >> >> Changing the numeric month to letters is wrong. Leave the standard as it is. Using an alpha month should be the prerogative of the writer. If he (she) chooses the largest-first order, that is all to the good in that it reinforces the rational order used in the all-numeric version of the date. Duncan >> >> Today is 2001-02-14. Any problems understanding this? Not for me! >> >> --------------------------------------------- >> DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! >> ---------------------------------------------
