On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:33 PM Bruce Hewson <bruce_hew...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Knowing which date format you are viewing is always a pain for me - some > system I support have mm/dd/yy and others have dd/mm/yy, and still others > use yy/mm/dd. > > I prefer, where possible, to us a 3 char MONTH abbreviation. > > Then you know which is the MONTH. > > and use a 4 digit YEAR. > > leaving only a 2 or 3 digit day value. > That's what I put on my checks: 6 May 2018. But, at least stored in a text form in a computer, I use ISO-8601 (or RFC3339) format. Unambiguous and directly sortable. > > Easy > > Tom Brennan's Vista TN3270 allows such on the status line. > > &trantime %d/%b/%Y.%j %I:%M%p &hostaddr &hostname > > > Regards > Bruce Hewson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
