Or you could think of it as the largest unit to the left. ISO 8601 is a very logical progression of year, month, day, hour, minute, second.
Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Ward Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 16:01 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:37170] Re: WOMBATized wristwatches 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] >> >> >> >> >> >> >
