What's your idea of a perfect date?
On Oct 11, 2022, at 08:43, Brooks Harris via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
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Pfft! I was expecting ISO-8601!! :) Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an | | expired warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again | | simply by changing the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch | | felt-tipped marker. | | | | -- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
On 2022-10-11 11:35 AM, Fred Gleason via tz wrote:
On Oct 11, 2022, at 08:43, Brooks Harris via tz <tz@iana.org <mailto:tz@iana.org>> wrote:
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Pfft! I was expecting ISO-8601!! :)
Cheers! I once had a check from a UK client (wait, I guess it must have been a cheque?) with a date like "19-7-2015". My American bank would not accept it because the date made no sense to them. It took phone calls and a visit to the bank to sort it out. :-)
|---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an | | expired warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again | | simply by changing the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch | | felt-tipped marker. | | | | -- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
On Oct 11, 2022, at 11:40, Brooks Harris via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
I once had a check from a UK client (wait, I guess it must have been a cheque?) with a date like "19-7-2015". My American bank would not accept it because the date made no sense to them. It took phone calls and a visit to the bank to sort it out. :-)
Even weirder (from a strictly parochial American POV) is a convention I’ve seen in German documents from the the early/mid-twentieth century (and perhaps today?), where the year would be expressed in Roman numerals. Thus: s/19-7-1932/19-7-XXXII/. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them | | to choose from. | | | | -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
What I've seen in parts of Africa is DMY format with the month being in Roman numerals (i.e., 11/X/2022 today), which avoids the ambiguity of M/D/Y vs. D/M/Y. On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 8:59 AM Fred Gleason via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
Even weirder (from a strictly parochial American POV) is a convention I’ve seen in German documents from the the early/mid-twentieth century (and perhaps today?), where the year would be expressed in Roman numerals. Thus: s/19-7-1932/19-7-XXXII/.
Cheers!
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Fred Gleason wrote in <E2CB130B-4024-4213-82D9-CA9FEDE555D6@paravelsystems.com>: |On Oct 11, 2022, at 11:40, Brooks Harris via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote: |> I once had a check from a UK client (wait, I guess it must have been \ |> a cheque?) with a date like "19-7-2015". My American bank would not \ |> accept it because the date made no sense to them. It took phone calls \ |> and a visit to the bank to sort it out. :-) | |Even weirder (from a strictly parochial American POV) is a convention \ |I’ve seen in German documents from the the early/mid-twentieth century \ |(and perhaps today?), where the year would be expressed in Roman numerals. \ |Thus: s/19-7-1932/19-7-XXXII/. On Monuments and such, royal names, you surely would find this even today. King Charles III. seems a very fresh incarnation of this historism. On daily and popular likely not, for example i have a cookbook from 1844 by Henriette Davidis, she does not. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
What, no one else remembered this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx5jt0zrJ9E David Braverman
On Oct 11, 2022, at 14:04, David Braverman via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
What, no one else remembered this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx5jt0zrJ9E <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx5jt0zrJ9E>
Even more pathetically: I just watched that, then spent about fifteen seconds wondering “So yeah? What’s the big deal?” I really need to get out of the office more… Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Brian Kernighan has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike | | most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor | | any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. | | Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in | | the center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver", he says, | | "will usually know what's wrong." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
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