2001-02-15 Downtobusiness wants to know if anyone in France would have any trouble understanding ISO-8601 date format? Louis, you are the perfect person to answer, what do you think? John Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtümlich glaubt frei zu sein. There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they are free! ----- Original Message ----- From: "downtobusiness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2001-02-15 00:03 Subject: Re: Well, damn it, NASA ought to be metr [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] > I am for the uniformity. I am for promoting the ISO standard. I am not interested in boring anyone if my comments seem tedious. But, militesla (good to hear from you!) I must answer your question. Oh, yes, I am sure that there are plenty of problems in understanding. Don't many Europeans put the date as 4 February 2001? And wouldn't any communication from me to any person in France, for example, with a date of 2001-02-04, cause many folks to think I had mentioned April 2? > > I don't want to wear this out. I want to adopt the ISO format immediately. I want to promote it. But I really get no joy at doing anything in the short term which will be misunderstood. So maybe we ought to insert the 2-letter abbreviation for the month? Or else how do we make sure that Feb. 4 and April 2 are not confused by folks accustomed to the current manner of speaking in France? > > --------------------------------------------- > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! > --------------------------------------------- > You have chosen to receive messages from "Metric America" by email. > > Reply to this message: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=metricamerica &sid=12177109&mid=945 > > Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/config/change_mb_list > > Return to "Metric America": > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica > ---------------------------------------------- > > Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: > http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=millitesla&.g roupID=metricamerica&.groupType=&.code=kqkKEmys7C > >
