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| From | Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps |
| Subject | Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! |
| Date | 2017-03-15 14:03 +0000 |
| Organization | Miskatonic U |
| Message-ID | <slrnociiim.19ug.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <oa9ll7$v74$1@dont-email.me> <140320172204489990%timstreater@greenbee.net> <here-438020.06462615032017@news.individual.net> <150320170900203422%timstreater@greenbee.net> <here-1F8330.10225215032017@news.individual.net> |
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In message <here-1F8330.10225215032017@news.individual.net> android <here@there.was> wrote: > In article <150320170900203422%timstreater@greenbee.net>, > Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote: >> In article <here-438020.06462615032017@news.individual.net>, android >> <here@there.was> wrote: >> >> >In article <140320172204489990%timstreater@greenbee.net>, >> > Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote: >> > >> >> In article <oa9ll7$v74$1@dont-email.me>, Patty Winter >> >> <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >In article <140320171424409720%nospam@nospam.invalid>, >> >> >nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote: >> >> >>In article <58c8349a$0$39521$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com>, JF >> >> >>Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> > It's international pi day today. Pi is a constant and is 3.14xxxxxx. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> As there is no 14th month in the calender, it can't be international >> >> >>> pi >> >> >>> day. >> >> >> >> >> >>your loss. >> >> > >> >> >Yep, if he wants to be snide about date-numbering systems, he can >> >> >go without pie today. Serves him right. >> >> >> >> It might be pi day in the US, but not anywhere else. >> > >> >Not according to the ISO: >> > >> >"ISO 8601 tackles this uncertainty by setting out an internationally >> >agreed way to represent dates: >> >> ISO can do what it likes. Real people, however, have other ideas. Which >> is why I made my comment. > You made a statement amounting to that the format of day following month > was US only. It's not, It is. > just take a look under the formats tab in the "Language and Text" > presets in "System Preferences"! ;-ppp The iso date is not "month first" it is YEAR first, and the year is required. So 12-31 is not an ISO date, it is an American date which only Americans use. Even in places that supposedly use the iso date, if someone writes the day and month, they will write 31-12. I avoid it all by always writing dd-mmm-yy (15-Mar-17) and the only time I write the date in the American style is when presented with a series of boxes labeled mm-dd-yyyy. -- Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthusiastic amateur who'd never looked at a real sunset. This was one of those sunrises. It was the kind of sunrise a man looks at and says, 'No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.' Nevertheless, it was beautiful. --The Thief of Time
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OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-14 17:19 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 12:22 -0400
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-03-14 16:29 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Neil <neil@myplaceofwork.com> - 2017-03-14 13:27 -0400
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-14 19:00 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-03-15 11:31 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-03-14 14:21 -0400
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-14 14:24 -0400
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-14 21:00 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-14 22:04 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 06:46 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-15 09:00 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 10:22 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-15 14:03 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 15:19 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-17 03:53 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-17 05:07 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-15 16:03 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-15 16:18 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 17:31 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-15 12:38 -0400
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 17:59 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-15 17:19 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-15 18:57 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-03-15 19:38 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-16 05:13 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-17 03:56 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-17 05:05 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-18 13:58 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-18 19:38 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-19 16:51 +0000
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-19 18:32 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2017-03-15 14:29 -0500
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! android <here@there.was> - 2017-03-14 20:06 +0100
Re: OT: Happy Pi Day! Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2017-03-15 14:29 -0500
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