I find that extremely odd.  Every single watch I've ever bought has the water resistence marked off in meters. But then again I've never bought Armitron. I've owned Timex Fossil and various five dollar Wal Mart watches and they've all had it marked in meters.



On 7/30/06, J. Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The international (ISO) date formats put the month before the day, not
after.  This follows the practice of writing numbers with the most
significant digit on the left.  So, for example, right now it is
2006-07-30 12:56.  You get the most important information first, and the
least important information last.

See, for example, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

John

J. Ward wrote:

> The international (ISO) date formats put the month before the day, not
> after.  This follows the practice of writing numbers with the most
> significant digit on the left.  So, for example, right now it is
> 2006-07-30 12:56.  You get the most important information first, and
> the least important information last.
>
> See, for example, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
>
> John
>
> Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote:
>
>> I just bought a digital wristwatch to time my running. Remember when
>> these were marked, "water resistant to 100 m" or "water resistant to
>> 50 m?" All the watches I saw in this display were marked "water
>> resistant eo 330 ft!!!!"  Of course, that's more "hidden metric," 100
>> m. The WOMBATized watch I bought is made by Armitron. At least I
>> could switch the time on it to 24-hour format and the date to
>> day-month format.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
>> Public Relations Director
>> U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
>> www.metric.org
>> 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apt. 122
>> Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>




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