2002-03-28
It seems that the ISO-8601 discussion group has the same type of complainers as we do. And about the same things: off topic postings and HTML formatted messages. What is posted later on is of interest. The posting that keeps coming back every so often about the width of modern railroads being the same 4 feet - 8.5 inches from antiquity is all nonsense. There was a changes over time and 1435 mm seems to be more of a modern standardisation. This is another example of the half-truths of the anti-metric forces. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Haas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2002-03-28 19:18 Subject: Re: [ISO8601] How do standards come to be? > On 2002-03-28T15:32:49, woudenberg wrote a long posting over the > importance of horse's asses. > > But I can't detect any importance for ISO8601. > > Please hj, can you omit such off topic postings. > > And please set your Mail-Client to 'only text', you produce oversized > postings because of text plus a html attachment with the same contents. > > > However, I can't abstain from any comments. I will attempt to find a > junction to the subject standard. :-) > > The maximal gauge in the english kingdom was determine per rule: > lesser than 5 foot. > The first english railroad gauge was 1422 mm (4 foot, 8 inch), any years > later George Stephenson have increased to 1435 mm. The modern european > high speed railroad tracks use 1432 mm. There are many railroad tracks > with different gauges. I have found a norwegian website with over 50 > different gauges: http://www.urvik.no/HMjK/sporvidde.en.html (change > 'en' to 'de' or 'no' for any translations). > > The consequence of the differences: the passengers must change trains or > the train must change the gauge (particularly for industrial transport). > Therefore the most countries have change its railroad tracks to a common > standard, mostly 1435 mm (4 foot, 8.5 inch). But today we can find > important differences in Europe at least for Spain, Portugal (1676 mm) > and Russia (1.524 mm = 5 foot, partially changed to 1435 mm). > > > I hope the ISO 8601 standard need not over 100 years to realize. > > In the bureau of mayor in my hometown the directive to use the ISO date > was withdraw last year. :-( > The argument: The people don't accept the 'new' date. (new = 1993) > > Cheers Peter. > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> > Tiny Wireless Camera under $80! > Order Now! FREE VCR Commander! > Click Here - Only 1 Day Left! > http://us.click.yahoo.com/nuyOHD/7.PDAA/yigFAA/zCsqlB/TM > ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >
