Hi :) +1 Unambiguous is best. It is just really nice to know there are ISO standards that happen to fit my slightly mad preferences ;) Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: nvrk <nvrk.89...@gmail.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 6:16:34 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Date Format in Writer FWIW - I prefer yyyymmmdd or ddmmmyyyy where the 'm' is alphabetic; - unambiguous! nvsoar On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Stan Goodman <stan.good...@hashkedim.com>wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2011 22:40:04 planas wrote: > > Johnny > > > > On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 12:36 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > > > 2011/8/11 Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>: > > > > Hi :) > > > > Ahhah, great. I prefer dashes - because after reading too much > > > > for too long my eyes get a bit muddled when people use / and > > > > dots still seem to confuse obscure Windows systems sometimes. I > > > > was told that the / was the European Standard but if - are used > > > > in one other country then that helps me argue the case with my > > > > boss. > > > > > > I though that ”/” was the US standard… Here (Sweden) we follow the > > > ISO8601, except for time. Seems like we use dots instead of colons. > > > > "/" with mm/dd/yyyy is the normal US standard (sometimes mm.dd.yyyy > > because "/" is mis interpreted in file names). Most Americans who > > have dealt with international trade are comfortable with either US > > or ISO styles and for dates. > > > > > Wish we and the rest of the world could just adapt the ISO 8601. > > > There is a reason for why it was created… And personally I use it > > > all the time. And of course every ”dygn” (sorry, there is no > > > English translation for that word - yet…) is 24 hours, so why that > > > silly 12 hour thing? If all analogue watches were made 24 hours, > > > you could very easily also use it as a compass, at least when you > > > can see the sun (if the hour hand point to the sun, then 24, or > > > rather 0, will point to north, 6 to east, 12 to south and 18 to > > > west). How can it be easier than that? > > > > When I was in elementary school we were taught a 12 hour cycle with > > AM and PM to determine if it was morning or afternoon/evening. The > > US military, I believe, uses the 24 hour clock because 0900 is > > always in the morning while evening equivalent 2100 is always in the > > evening/night, much less likely to be misunderstood. > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Johnny Rosenberg > > > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > > 2011-08-11 12:36:51 > > > > > > > Regards from > > > > Tom :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> > > > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > > > > Sent: Thu, 11 August, 2011 11:18:39 > > > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Date Format in Writer > > > > > > > > 2011/8/11 <rjw...@phonecoop.coop>: > > > >> To avoid confusion between the mm.dd.yyyy and the dd.mm.yyyy > > > >> date formats can > > > >> > > > >>we have the less ambiguous > > > >> > > > >> "International" > > > > > > > > It IS international, it's ISO 8601 (and also Swedish standard, > > > > lucky me… ;P)! Except that there should be dashes, not dots: > > > > yyyy-mm-dd. > > > > > > > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > > > Johnny Rosenberg > > > > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > > > > > > >> yyyy.mm.dd format included as an option (default?) in the fields > > > >> for Writer? > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: > > > >> users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? > > > > > > > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscr > > > > ibe/ > > > > > > > >> Posting guidelines + more: > > > >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: > > > >> http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages > > > >> sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > > >> deleted > > > > > > > > -- > > > > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: > > > > users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? > > > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubsc > > > > ribe/ Posting guidelines + more: > > > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: > > > > http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages > > > > sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > > > deleted > > > > > > > > -- > > > > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: > > > > users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? > > > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubsc > > > > ribe/ Posting guidelines + more: > > > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: > > > > http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages > > > > sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > > > deleted > > There is a limit to how comfortable such people can be, living in a > mixed envirenment and trying to juggle mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy. I > wonder how many schedules or appointments have been missed, how much > money lost, because of misinterpreting 8/11/2011 as a date in November > rather than one in August, or vice versa. Not to mention applications > that know only mm/dd/yyyy although the OS is set for dd/mm/yyyy (as > here), so that one must analyse every date that is displayed. > > -- > Stan Goodman > Qiryat Tiv'on > Israel > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
