The international (ISO) date formats put the month before the day, not
after. This follows the practice of writing numbers with the most
significant digit on the left. So, for example, right now it is
2006-07-30 12:56. You get the most important information first, and the
least important information last.
See, for example, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
John
J. Ward wrote:
The international (ISO) date formats put the month before the day, not
after. This follows the practice of writing numbers with the most
significant digit on the left. So, for example, right now it is
2006-07-30 12:56. You get the most important information first, and
the least important information last.
See, for example, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
John
Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote:
I just bought a digital wristwatch to time my running. Remember when
these were marked, "water resistant to 100 m" or "water resistant to
50 m?" All the watches I saw in this display were marked "water
resistant eo 330 ft!!!!" Of course, that's more "hidden metric," 100
m. The WOMBATized watch I bought is made by Armitron. At least I
could switch the time on it to 24-hour format and the date to
day-month format.
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
www.metric.org
3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apt. 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
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