Post by thread:Once in a life-time.

Others write 5th of June as 05/06/07 which always appeared more logical to me as far as sorting from small to large units of course the time is sorted in reverse AM(=1) 02h 03min 04s anyhow how about the 01h 02min 03s on 04/05/06 and also for the other applicable years this decade? On 5/4/07, Robert Rolf <spam_OUTRobert.RolfTakeThisOuTualberta.ca> wrote: > > At Three minutes and Four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, > the time and date will be: 02:03:04 05/06/07. > > -

No it's the date that's sorted in reverse (least significant part first) at least in Europe - in the US the least significant part's in the middle! More logical would be YY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss (as mentioned above by Tamas - what country does use that notation?) On 5/4/07, Tobias Gogolin <.....usertogoKILLspam@spam@gmail.com> wrote: {Quote hidden}> > Others write 5th of June as 05/06/07 > which always appeared more logical to me as far as sorting from small to > large units > of course the time is sorted in reverse AM(=1) 02h 03min 04s > anyhow how about the 01h 02min 03s on 04/05/06 > and also for the other applicable years this decade? > > > On 5/4/07, Robert Rolf <Robert.RolfKILLspamualberta.ca> wrote: > > > > At Three minutes and Four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this > year, > > the time and date will be: 02:03:04 05/06/07. > > > > --

Chris McSweeny wrote: > No it's the date that's sorted in reverse (least significant part first) at > least in Europe - in the US the least significant part's in the middle! > > More logical would be YY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss (as mentioned above by Tamas - what > country does use that notation?) > the ISO date format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS note the - not the / I believe mainland china uses this format, I also use it in everything I do, nobody has ever been confused by it yet ;-> (Its also the date format that MySQL uses btw)

Jake Anderson escribió: > Chris McSweeny wrote: > >> No it's the date that's sorted in reverse (least significant part first) at >> least in Europe - in the US the least significant part's in the middle! >> >> More logical would be YY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss (as mentioned above by Tamas - what >> country does use that notation?) >> >> I think Japan too.

You thought it was confusing before??? Date and Time Formats http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html In Microsoft.net http://www.apress.com/ApressCorporate/supplement/1/62/1590590023-267.pdf Lets just go with the ISO standard, and force our governemnts to comply but 'common usage'. Interestingly, I could find no web document that lists date format by country. I thought that Microsoft would have one for it's Winblows installs, but if they do, it is well hidden. R Mauricio Giovagnini wrote: {Quote hidden}> Jake Anderson escribió: > >>Chris McSweeny wrote: >> >> >>>No it's the date that's sorted in reverse (least significant part first) at >>>least in Europe - in the US the least significant part's in the middle! >>> >>>More logical would be YY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss (as mentioned above by Tamas - what >>>country does use that notation?) >>> >>> > > I think Japan too. > >

In Germany and Austria, for instance, this format was in use for a few years after implementation of ISO units but it doesn't become accepted widely. So the old format DD.MM.YYYY is used (again) - btw. even from MS W2K German. Regards Enrico -- OE1EQW -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Mauricio Giovagnini" <.....maugiovagniniKILLspam.....yahoo.com.ar> An: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <EraseMEpiclistspam_OUTTakeThisOuTmit.edu> Gesendet: Montag, 07. Mai 2007 20:44 Betreff: Re: Once in a life-time. Jake Anderson escribió: > Chris McSweeny wrote: > >> No it's the date that's sorted in reverse (least significant part first) at >> least in Europe - in the US the least significant part's in the middle! >> >> More logical would be YY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss (as mentioned above by Tamas - what >> country does use that notation?) >> >> I think Japan too.

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 22:53 +0200, Enrico Schuerrer wrote: > In Germany and Austria, for instance, this format was in use for a few years after implementation of ISO units but it doesn't become accepted widely. So the old format DD.MM.YYYY is used (again) - btw. even from MS W2K German. FWIW, I've always written dates as follows: 20070507.1717 It's simple to write, leaves nothing to confusing, and orders the numbers the "correct" way (MSB->LSB), IMHO. As an aside, Canada is one of the WORST countries when it comes to date formatting since officially it's dd/mm/yy here, yet, since we do so much business with our neighbours to the south, it's VERY common to see the US mm/dd/yy format. This is fine if it's Halloween, but tell me whether 03/04/07 is supposed to be march 4th, or april 3rd? It's a COMPLETELY moronic situation IMHO, and I'm sure many dollars have been lost over the years due to this stupidity on our part. TTYL

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 23:24 +0200, Dario Greggio wrote: > Herbert Graf wrote: > > > FWIW, I've always written dates as follows: > > 20070507.1717 > > That's why Stardate makes sense :-) Hehe, come to think of it, that's probably where I got the idea from... TTYL