You are correct John. All I was saying was that they can be changed to a different order which I found useful. I was just trying to inform people about this product not to start a debate.
As for the manufacturer I doubt that he is the culprite since they are made in Austria. I am sure that they designed the stamps this way so they can build them in whatever order the "customer wants"- hence Office Depot USA. Note that they can also be configured in the Western European way which is DD MMM YYYY. A. ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:37:34 -0400 To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:21201] RE: Date stamps in ISO format > 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 > > > > > > > > -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Save up to $160 by signing up for NetZero Platinum Internet service. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=N2P0602NEP8
