Good comment and a logical alternative to the confusion. If people use MS
Office and wish to use this format, it must be changed in Control Panel. When
the pattern is added, the dates in Excel, Word, etc. default to the new format,
at least the short date. Open Office seems to be able to handle any format
regardless of Control Panel settings.
But would logic catch on?
>________________________________
> From: Thaddeus Weakley <thadweak...@yahoo.com>
>To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
>Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:43 PM
>Subject: Re: 08:09:10 11/12/13
>
>
>I too strongly agree with Paul. The YYYY/MM/DD format sorts numerically;
>something that I gravitated to when a lad with database set-up and
>administration.
>
>This format also seems the most logical to me. In the grand scope of things,
>the millenium, century, year, month, day typically take precedence in that
>order.
>
>And now that we increasingly are interacting with a global market - a
>consistant, logical, and readily understood data format seems as important as
>ever....
>
>Thad Weakley
>American expat in Montreal, Quebec
>
>
>> ---- Sunclocks North America <sunclock...@icloud.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> =============
>> 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
>>
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