Dividing the day in 2*12 hours was universal, not specifically invented. The Latin qualifiers were sometimes used in old 17th and 18 century Dutch 'Resolutions of the Estates General', that is before AM/PM became strictly Anglo-Saxon usage. On the other hand, I have seen year-month-day notations in very old documents as well. In the world of archives, this notation has been standard for decades, even before it was called ISO 8601. I have a Fujitsu digital camera that allows me to choose year-month-day, but forces AM/PM time on me for the timing of photos. Although my computer was set on the configuration screen to ISO 8601 by hand, Outlook Express attached the US notation in the headers of my emails. So I went back to Date and Time, selected the US and then changed all relevant settings - decimal sign, system of units, date and time- there manually. Now my email headers are ISO 8601 as well. That is what one calls fighting fire with fire.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Ossipov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2004-01-02 1:30 Subject: [USMA:28081] Calendar, date and time Does someone if who introduced 12 h plague notation first? If the British Empire did, I don't wonder that such crap can be *only* British. bye
