Bill, Pierre:
>Anyone have a better suggestion for a symbol for year?
I have often used the symbols as: Y & yr for year. But to specify if I meant
ONLY the tropical year or otherwise, it become obvious to qualify as Y (Year
Tropical, Yt) or Ys (Year Sidereal).....etc. The general convention of
reference to Year being a 'tropical year', when only Y is good enough.
BUT, is this a point of debate? Why not leave it alone, with its existing
symbol as: yyyy-mm (or ww)-dd H hr-md-sd; H being the seperation for 'time of
the 'hour, using decimalised minutes & decimal seconds after the hour'.
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(M)001(201)962-3708(when in US)> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:40681] RE: symbol for year> Date: Wed, 26
Mar 2008 13:47:33 -0700> > As it's a variable, I don't think a symbol (other
than an italicized one,> which would be scientifically appropriate, but not SI)
is needed at all.> > As it's only a four-letter word (in several languages --
only two letters in> French), it's not too tedious to spell it out anyway. Its
use in a> pseudo-mask for date formatting (e.g., yyyy-mm-dd, used for MS Excel
date> cells and elsewhere) is arbitrary and convenient (and not intended to be>
faithful to SI).> > Bill Potts> ________________________________> Bill Potts>
Roseville, CA> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > > -----Original
Message-----> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf> Of
Pierre Abbat> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 11:59> To: U.S. Metric Association>
Subject: [USMA:40675] symbol for year> > I've seen "y", "a", and "ya" as
symbols for year ("ya" actually for "years> ago"). Both "y" and "a" have
problems:> *If "a" means year, then a petayear is "Pa", but that's a pascal.>
*If "y" means year, then a gigayear is "Gy", but that's a gray.> Anyone have a
better suggestion for a symbol for year?> > Pierre>
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