2001-12-23
My Casio watch just shows the month and day in MM-dd format. Even when I
select the 24 h mode, it does not reverse the month-day format to the
European standard. I really don't know if Casio's choice of using MM-dd was
to conform to ISO or American practice. By not displaying the year, it
works for both. My watch is at least 10 years old, so I doubt the had the
ISO standard in mind. I'm sure if they did display the year, it would have
followed and not preceded.
John
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, 2001-12-23 09:17
Subject: [USMA:16781] Re: Fw: Watches [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America]
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"...
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.
*Quicken is a "financial planner," id est a database modified into a
glorified checkbook—jussincase versions aren't sold worldwide.
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