I use the ITU-recommended notation on my business cards, stationery and brochures -- and have done so for several years now.
I also use the ISO 8601 date and time formats (other than when using an alphabetical month) in a monthly newsletter of which I'm the publisher. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JPB Cliveden Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 15:20 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:19401] Re: Evolution of standards of measurement Terry Simpson, replying to me, very helpfully pointed to a useful web site with some very clear guidelines: http://www.ngi.org/enum/pub/Draft_Rec_E123.htm reflecting ITU Recommendation E.123 (02/01) Notation for national and international telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and Web addresses Approved in 2001-02. Status : In force. Sections 2.3 and 2.6 provide examples of how one may structure both the national and international formats if one chooses to display both formats of a telephone number, rather than just displaying the international format. I have instructed staff to display only the international format when sending telephone number details to colleagues or clients within their own (European) country, as it very often happens that such an email message is eventually forwarded by the recipient to someone in anther country who then does not know what the proper country code is for the original reference. Best regards, Brent Brent Cliveden Vice President, General Manager, North America TEAMworks Clinical Services Inc +1 617 367 0010 Telephone +1 617 367 0090 Fax +1 617 388 0050 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.teamworks.de -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Gottlieb Sent: 10 April 2002 17.55 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:19399] Re: Evolution of standards of measurement On 2002-04-10 at 23:22, Louis JOURDAN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I use to write my phone number as +33 (0)2 9927 2588. Technically, that's wrong. It should be +33 2 9927 2588. However, I do sometimes see it as you wrote it, to indicate to people in their own country that they should dial a 0 first. As with other international standards, Americans are the worst when it comes to phone numbers. They assume there are no other countries and rarely include the country code. In fact, most Americans have no idea what their country code is. Then sometimes I see Americans trying to do it right and printing their New Hampshire number as: +603 555 2368, which would really be a number in Malaysia. -- Jim Gottlieb | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | V-Mail: +1 619 364 6912 | Fax: +1 858 274 8181 My Home Page URL: http://tokyojim.com/
