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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