Re: [libreoffice-users] Date Format in Writer

Johnny

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 12:36 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 

> 2011/8/11 Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>:
> > Hi :)
> > Ahhah, great.  I prefer dashes - because after reading too much for too long my
> > eyes get a bit muddled when people use / and dots still seem to confuse obscure
> > Windows systems sometimes.  I was told that the / was the European Standard but
> > if - are used in one other country then that helps me argue the case with my
> > boss.
>
> I though that ”/” was the US standard… Here (Sweden) we follow the
> ISO8601, except for time. Seems like we use dots instead of colons.

"/" with mm/dd/yyyy is the normal US standard (sometimes mm.dd.yyyy
because "/" is mis interpreted in file names). Most Americans who have
dealt with international trade are comfortable with either US or ISO
styles and for dates. 

> Wish we and the rest of the world could just adapt the ISO 8601. There
> is a reason for why it was created… And personally I use it all the
> time. And of course every ”dygn” (sorry, there is no English
> translation for that word – yet…) is 24 hours, so why that silly 12
> hour thing? If all analogue watches were made 24 hours, you could very
> easily also use it as a compass, at least when you can see the sun (if
> the hour hand point to the sun, then 24, or rather 0, will point to
> north, 6 to east, 12 to south and 18 to west). How can it be easier
> than that?

When I was in elementary school we were taught a 12 hour cycle with AM
and PM to determine if it was morning or afternoon/evening. The US
military, I believe, uses the 24 hour clock because 0900 is always in
the morning while evening equivalent 2100 is always in the
evening/night, much less likely to be misunderstood. 

> Regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
> 2011-08-11 12:36:51
>
>
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Thu, 11 August, 2011 11:18:39
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Date Format in Writer
> >
> > 2011/8/11  <rjweir@phonecoop.coop>:
> > > To avoid confusion between the mm.dd.yyyy and the dd.mm.yyyy date formats can
> > > we have the less ambiguous
> > > "International"
> >
> > It IS international, it's ISO 8601 (and also Swedish standard, lucky
> > me… ;P)! Except that there should be dashes, not dots: yyyy-mm-dd.
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Johnny Rosenberg
> > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
> >
> > > yyyy.mm.dd format included as an option (default?) in the fields for Writer?
> > >
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