----- Original Message ----- From: "New York Times on the Web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 6:43 PM Subject: Re: getting international
> > Thank you for contacting The New York Times on the Web. > > We appreciate your taking the time to write to us and have > passed your comments on to the appropriate department. > > Thanks again for writing. > > Regards, > > Torben A. Jackson > NYTimes.com > Customer Service > www.nytimes.com/help > > > > > > At 02:43 PM 10/11/02, you wrote: > > >Michael Ossipov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/11/2002 05:18:17 AM > > > > > >Subject: getting international > > > > > >Dear Mr. Sulzberger, > > > >I like to read your newspaper online and I appreciate the articles but > >there is one thing which really hassles me. > > > >You are used to write date and time in the obsolete US notation. I guess > >you are aware that many of your visitors are international which aren't and > >shouldn't be familiar with that notation. > > > >I strongly encourage you and your reporters to use in your whole > >publication, at least online, the ISO time and date notation. This would be > >a big relief for us reading and understanding the artcles. > > > >please refer to http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html to get further > >information on proper notation > > > >yours, > > > > > >Michael Ossipov >
