There are TWO ways to handle, the issue. (1) Educate to reason and adopt or (2) Let the problem die a *natural daeth*. At least I am not aware if ISO ever wanted Dates to go the (2) way! Well, choice is OURS. Brij B. Vij
>From: Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:22708] Re: Date Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:10:19 +0100 > >Jim Elwell wrote on 2002-10-14 13:54 UTC: > > 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. > >And ISO 8601 explicitely says that it does *not* aim at replacing these. >All ISO aims at is replacing all other *all-numeric* formats, such as >10/13/02 or 13.10.02, and there can't be anything wrong with that. > >Markus > >-- >Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK >Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
