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| From | John <Man@the.keyboard> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: E-S |
| Date | 2025-01-10 12:17 +0000 |
| Organization | To protect and to server |
| Message-ID | <3o32ojdpfb98o64sj612m7flq23ebbonja@4ax.com> (permalink) |
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:13:27 +0000, John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 17:41:31 -0000 (UTC), Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-09 13:11, John C. wrote:
>>>> Newyana2 wrote:
>>>>> s|b wrote:
>>>>>> Newyana2 wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Anyone seen posts on Eternal-September this morning? 7/1/25
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll let you know in July. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nobody's laughing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just a gentle reminder to avoid ambiguous notation in an
>>>>> international forum. Perhaps Jim didn't realize that M/D/Y
>>>>> notation and D/M/Y notation are both widely used.
>>>>>
>>>>> No date was necessary at all, since newsreaders generally
>>>>> show the date. Not a big deal, but it is confusing, especially
>>>>> when the date is 1-12.
>>>>
>>>> I know that's common usage, but on my system I went to a more logical
>>>> way years ago.
>>>>
>>>> YYMMDDHHMMSS
>>>>
>>>> It makes sorting files in File Manager a lot easier. And if I put it at
>>>> the start of a file's name, I can easily sort by name. Really helpful
>>>> with photos.
>>>
>>> Better if you do YYYY. It makes easier for other people to recognize it
>>> is a year. Once you know the first figure is the year, it is easy to
>>> guess the rest.
>>
>>Fortunately there's an ISO standard for all of this: 8601
>>
>>The valid format is YYYY-MM-DD or, optionally, YYYYMMDD.
>
>
> And, in a couple of years, that is going to be Y2000'ed.
"We're going to need a bigger standard ..."
>
> "The CHILDREN, THE CHILDREN, Won't *anyone* ever think of THE
>*C*H*IIIIIIII*LLLLLLLL*DD*RRRR*EEEEEEEEE*NNNNNNNNNN???!!!!"
And the odds of there actually *being* any are?
>
> J.
>
>
>
>
>
>Addendum: the day after the 31st of December, 9999, in case you're
>still coffee deprived.
>
> I'd give ten minutes of setting-up time for the ability to use
>coloured text, bold, italic and marching ants in Usenet. Hysterical
>lunacy just ain't as fetching in plain ASCII. :) J.
Or maybe not. I always hated those Manglers who spent their days
finding obscure fonts and flashy tools to jazz up the multi-megabyte
email attachments that could have been a few lines of plain,
easy-to-read text. :)
Happy New Year, everyone.
J.
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