This has always been a pet peeve of mine! All of these differing date formats are confusing, as you can never really be sure which one people are using. Here in Canada, it's even worse because some people put the month first like in the USA and others put the day first and yet others put the year first! Nobody can be sure if something like 10/11/12 means October 11th 2012, November 10th 2012 or November 12th 2010! At least now that we're in 2013, some of that confusion is gone for the next 87 years. I think that the best way which everyone in the world understands is to start a four digit year: yyyy/mm/dd, and all the confusion goes away with the simple addition of two characters. Plus the dates can be easily sorted numerically. It's pretty much the only date format I ever use unless I spell out the month.
Paul Ratto SunClocks North America > On Nov 12, 2013, at 1:53 PM, David Patte ₯ <dpa...@relativedata.com> wrote: > > In Canada, I am waiting for 13-12-11 10:09 = 2013, December 11th at 10:09 in > the morning. > > > >> On 2013-11-12 13:43, Willy Leenders wrote: >> You can also come to Europe, Bill. >> In my country, 11/12/13 is the eleventh day of December 2013 >> >> Willy Leenders >> Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium) >> >> Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders) >> with a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch): >> http://www.wijzerweb.be >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Op 12-nov-2013, om 19:18 heeft Bill Gottesman het volgende geschreven: >>> >>> Did anyone catch this auspicious moment, 08:09:10 11/12/13? I missed it, >>> but will go for another try this PM. >>> >>> -Bill >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >>> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> > > > -- >
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