Pierre, why do you not regard the week number as the "business week number" and regard it as an arrangement by which Christian, Muslin, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, non-believer etc can exchange information for business purposes and be sure that they understand each other. If you look a little further down the standard you will see that the week numbering make use the week starting on a Monday - Week 1 of the year contains the first Thursday of the year, thus Week 1 and the last week of the year, be it Week 52 or Week 53 will always contain at least for days of the year in question as part of the week.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pierre Abbat Sent: 10 March 2009 14:05 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:43632] Re: 24 hour time On Tuesday 10 March 2009 05:07:17 David wrote: > What are the changes of the United States adopting 24 hour time instead of > the AM/PM thing? Would there be some kind of law (which would probably > occur after metrication) or would it just be one of those things people > just adopt? What about date standards? I would like to see America start > using DD/MM/YY instead of MM/DD/YY. What does it take for a country to > adopt a date/time standard? The format is YYYY-MM-DD. A slash in a date or time denotes an interval. If you write a two-digit year, you are not Y2K compliant. There's one part of the standard I disagree with: A week begins on Sunday, not Monday. For religious purposes, it begins at sunset on Saturday, but it's pretty rare that I go to the office on Saturday night. Pierre
