Richard Mallett wrote:
Astronomers use yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss ...
Well, yes and no :-)
This matter is governed by an ISO standard.
More strictly, it has been governed by a
whole sequence of ISO standards. Look it
up in Wikipedia...
The current standard (if you don't wait
too long before opening
At five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this
year,the time and date will be
* **04**:05:**06** 07/**08**/09.*
This will not happen again for a thousand years.
Tony Moss
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We will also have 07/08/09 10:11:12 that same day.
Thad Weakley
--- On Wed, 5/6/09, Tony Moss t...@lindisun.demon.co.uk wrote:
From: Tony Moss t...@lindisun.demon.co.uk
Subject: A unique occasion
To: Sundial Mailing List sundial@uni-koeln.de
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 7:26 AM
At five
Tony,
In my country where the notation of the date is in the order day /
month / year, it happens another time in August this year.
Willy LEENDERS
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
www.wijzerweb.be
Op 6-mei-2009, om 13:26 heeft Tony Moss het volgende geschreven:
At five minutes and six
And of course next year we will have
05:06:07 08/09/10
Then in the years after,
06:07:08 09/10/11
07:08:09 10/11/12
08:09:10 11/12/13
Then it starts to get difficult, depending upon your nomenclature.
Here in the UK we use dd/mm/yy not mm/dd/yy.
Mike Shaw
53.37N 3.02W
Mike Shaw wrote:
* And of course next year we will have *
* *
* 05:06:07 08/09/10 *
* *
* Then in the years after, *
* *
* 06:07:08 09/10/11 *
* 07:08:09 10/11/12 *
* 08:09:10 11/12/13 *
* *
* Then it starts to get difficult, depending upon your nomenclature. *
* Here in the UK we
