Re: [libreoffice-users] Date Format in Writer

On Thursday 11 August 2011 22:40:04 planas wrote:
> 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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There is a limit to how comfortable such people can be, living in a 
mixed envirenment and trying to juggle mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy. I 
wonder how many schedules or appointments have been missed, how much 
money lost, because of misinterpreting 8/11/2011 as a date in November 
rather than one in August, or vice versa.  Not to mention applications 
that know only mm/dd/yyyy although the OS is set for dd/mm/yyyy (as 
here), so that one must analyse every date that is displayed.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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