Hi Marcus: The all number caladar has been a dream of ISO 8601:1988 about what I have a prponant back home in India, as well. The best format would be to discard months and their disparities and use YYYY WW DD format folloed by HOUR of the Dayusing *decimalised* minutes and seconds. Brij Bhushan Vij
>From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:21227] Re: Date stamps in ISO format >Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:13:33 -0700 > >Just an aside comment here to say that perhaps the use of 2002 Jul 17 (or >JUL, whatever...) would be highly beneficial as a transitional alternative >before we can move to an all-numbers calendar reckoning (till people can >get more used to the system and no longer be confused with whether 02 >refers to month two or year 2002, etc...). Comments?... > >Marcus > >On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:37:34 > kilopascal wrote: > >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 > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > >Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably >Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. >Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
