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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Charles Stover</b> <<a href="mailto:cstover@cityofhuntington.com">cstover@cityofhuntington.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Whereas, I'm from the US and am totally at home with the month/day/year<br>format, I run into much confusion when communicating with online
<br>strangers where I don't know what format they are using. The Aussie<br>format is more logical than ours in that it has a direction, a flow,<br>from fine to coarse. I, too, would like to recommend a change, but, not<br>
from one local idiosyncrasy to another (LARGE localities, to be sure).<br>I would like to see everything go ISO, eventually. It also has a flow,<br>just in the opposite direction, from coarse to fine. It has the added<br>
advantage of requiring no punctuation as long as the fields are padded<br>with zeros. It can include time intervals down to the second or<br>fraction thereof. For me, right now is 8:51:10 am on May 11, 2006. It<br>can be expressed as 20060511085110. (I don't know how ISO handles
<br>decimal notation for parts of a second.) Just the date, 20060511.<br>Punctuation makes it an easier read, but, isn't necessary. 2006-05-11.<br>See? The format will work until the year 10,000.<br>Check it out at<br>
<a href="http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/arch0854.htm">http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/arch0854.htm</a><br>Best Wishes,<br>Charlie Stover<br><br><br><br><br><a href="mailto:nicholas.g.lawrence@mainroads.qld.gov.au">nicholas.g.lawrence@mainroads.qld.gov.au
</a> wrote:<br><br>>I'm looking at <a href="http://www.osgeo.org">www.osgeo.org</a>, and all the entries in "current news" are<br>>date-stamped.<br>><br>>This is good, but the date stamps are in the month/day/year format.
<br>>Being Australian, I'm accustomed to a day/month/year format.<br>><br>>Is it possible to represent the month with a word, instead of a number?<br>><br>>Regards,<br>>Nick Lawrence<br>><br>><br>>************************************************************
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Original British is the best logical,first you want to what date? month next and the year 2006. Standard procedure is 11/5/2006. It's very clear understandable too, you must make an ISO.
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