At 08:06 PM, 13 October 2002 -0500, John Nichols wrote: >Dear All and Sundry: > >We could simplify the date issue by using Julian Date and Year ie: JJJ:YYYY. > >So that Christmas day would be 329:2002. Simple, neat and completely >confusing. >Or for filing 2002:329.
This may be clean and neat, but it has the same problem as the ISO format some forum members are fond of: it caters to "theoretical" simplicity and consistency, while ignoring human beings. The vast majority of people the world over use a calender with named months (i.e., January, February, ...). We should write dates to make life easy for humans, not computers. Today is 13 October 2002. Jim Elwell, CAMS Electrical Engineer Industrial manufacturing manager Salt Lake City, Utah, USA www.qsicorp.com
