Am 03.01.2014 15:07, schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Friday 03 January 2014 09:05:21 andy pugh did opine: > >> On 3 January 2014 05:42, Kent A. Reed <[email protected]> wrote: >>> A case in point is RFC 2822 which defines the headers of the >>> email we are exchanging. It defines a date as "day month year". This >>> isn't surprising since many early Internet RFCs codified the >>> prevailing practices here in the USA, and it's hard to change the >>> practice once there are millions of mail agent programs in place. >> Surely DD-MM-YY is not US conventional practice at all. Don't you use >> the illogical-no-matter-how-you-consider-it MM-DD-YY ? >> >>> Representation of decimal numbers is a mess. >> The British Standard for technical drawings uses a comma. But nowhere >> else is this used, and I have rarely seen it used on technical >> drawings either.
Don't say nowhere else! It is used in Germany as standard! >> >>> When I was still bright eyed and bushy tailed I thought "how hard can >>> developing these standards be? >> I think I may have posted this before: http://xkcd.com/927/ > And that takes us full circle, back to the statement that standards are > nice, there are so many to choose from. :) > > Cheers, Gene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
