On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 09:17:33 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 2001/12/22 15:48:24 Eastern Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ><< Casio uses yyyy-mm-dd format (though, unfortunately, often displayed as > "01-12-31"), and offer 24 h format on practically all their models.>> > >Call me "picky," Chris, but that would be "yy-mm-dd" for "01-12-31," >"yyyy-mm-dd" for "2001-12-31"...
Which is why I said "unfortunately". When setting the date, the year is shown in full, but the normal display mode abbreviates it to 2 digits. >BTW, when I set my decrepit olde Win '95 machine to the ISO dating scheme, it >complied w/o a hitch, as do most of my "apps"; I could even choose my >delimiters, within limits. The one rogue of the lot is my equally ancient >Quicken '99*. It feels compelled to give me "yy-mm-dd," which, to us Yanks, >looks enough like our "mm-dd-yy" to confuse to the sh-- out of anyone. If >Quicken 2002 gives true "yyyy-mm-dd," I'll give in and upgrade. At least it has improved since I first looked at it as an alternative to MS Money. Back then it forced the standard UK format, regardless of what the Win 95 settings were. I have to say, that whatever criticisms are levelled at Microsoft, they are very aware of local sensibilities. Having this past year suffered the introduction of new systems from Oracle at work, they are definitely the worst I have ever encountered. They have forced defaults of US letter size, as well as the US-style 'no leading zero' decimals, US spelling and US accountancy terminology. Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
