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RE: German professor: Unluckiest Friday 13th since 1520
From: "David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:53:55 +0100
The world should really standardize of the 2006-10-13 format so that dates are like times with the units going from big to small.
There's certainly a case for standardization, but it depends on what you intend to standardize. For times in English, we nowadays tend to say "ten fifteen/thirty/forty-five" rather than "forty-five past ten" or even "thirty-one minutes after ten", let alone quarter past/to etc., so how we say it and how we write it has tended to converge. Though I still tend to finish my working day at seven o'clock, not 19:00. However, if you ask me for today's date in full, I'll say "the fourteenth of October, 2006", not "2006, October 14th". I guess it depends on how far you expect what you write to follow speech patterns and how much stress you lay on data-processing convenience. -- David Harley Security Author & Consultant Small Blue-Green World dharley () smallblue-greenworld co uk _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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