2002-07-17
I don't see much of a difference between 2002 JUL 17 and 2002 Jul 17, except that JUL became Jul. In both cases, the months contain 3 letters, and in Adrian's example I didn't notice any leading zeros. You may prefer the month be spelled with small letters instead of all capitals or that ISO8601 be used correctly with all digits, but the stamps Adrian mentioned don't offer that choice. I interpreted Adrian's posting to mean that one can defeat the manufacturer's preference of using the US date format by removing an reassembling the rubber strips into a quasi-ISO8601 format. John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2002-07-17 17:56 Subject: [USMA:21197] RE: Date stamps in ISO format > > Of Metric US > > Did you know that many of the stamps that can be bought at Office > Depot > > (for example) can be modified to stamp in YYYY MMM DD format? (I know, > it > > is not 100% ISO since it has letters for the months but still) > > I am favour of 100% ISO8601 for data. For human presentation I prefer to > show months as 3 letter word case text and eliminate leading zeros. > > So your example: > > 2002 JUL 17 > would become: > 2002 Jul 17 > > -- > Terry Simpson > Human Factors Consultant > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.connected-systems.com > Phone: +44 7850 511794 > > >
