-----Original Message----- From: Leonardo Boselli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 9, 2002 08:11 Subject: [USMA:18629] Re: Roman legacy
On 8 Mar 2002, at 20:44, Joseph B. Reid wrote: > The movies date their films in Rman numerals to conceal the date, not > to reveal it. I have however [althought not recently] seen dates written as 12/IV/89 ... of course the reason for this use is clear ! But, given ISO 8601, unnecessary. And, given the variable field length, unfortunate. Further, such dates after 1999 are open to misinterpretation. D. Leonardo Boselli nucleo informatico e telematico Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile Universita` di Firenze V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333 http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
