Date & Time options

[Dauphin]

I say dates number first, like "My birthday is the sixth of July".

Wasn't there an American film called "Born on (the) 4th of July" or was is "Born on July 4th"?

[Dauphin]

This system should be used for dates as well. Unfortunately only ISO realizes this and most people don't take ISO seriously in this respect

Time is a valid exception to the rule. Would the ISO also like to see 100 secs in a minute, 100 minutes in and hour, 10 hours in day.....

Also would they recommend addresses on letters be reversed? ie Country first rather than house number and street name?

Its just not convenient to measure somethings in an "easy" or systematic way.

[mactbone]

I want Indiana time!

Even Microsoft gives us our own time!

We don't change clocks. EVER!

[Dauphin]

Changing clocks every ~6 mnths would be expensive, we just set them forward or back an hour.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
Time is a valid exception to the rule. Would the ISO also like to see 100 secs in a minute, 100 minutes in and hour, 10 hours in day.....

When you get to the "micro" scale with time, it goes in lots of 1000 ie: milliseconds, nanoseconds, etc

[Dauphin]

But how much is femto- or picoseconds used in everyday language?

Its hard enough getting Americans to use metric weight and distance, there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of getting metric time used in everyday life.

[ixnay]

Bump.



The clock still hasn't been fixed.

[johndmuller]

If the month is in numeric format, a significant number of people are going to have some difficulty and/or occasional misreadings of the date.

If the month is in text format (and the year remains 4 digits), then nobody would have any significant difficulty.

If date formats such as 20-Feb-2002 or Feb-20-2002 are do-able, it would seem to be the obvious solution. People might have a slight preference between the two, but at least the confusion would be removed.

On the other hand, if the idea is to maximize the confusion, Markos is missing the opportunity to change the year to 2 digits (keeping the others numeric).

[Gramphos]

I remember posting somthing about this mystef when I was new to Poly.

There should be a hack somewhere to change this. (I read to vB-boards)

[Grrr]

And a +13 time option. We are currently in summer time, and thus GMT+13hours. This is not possible on Apolyton.

[Dauphin]

That's just silly.

It isamusing that for half the year Greenwich is ahead of its "mean time", the other half it is at mean time - so Greenwich Mean Time is not the mean time of Greenwich at all!

[ixnay]

OK, i've been looking into this, and changing the date format from 26-02-2002 to 26-Feb-2002 is as simple as opening up the control panel, and changing an m to an M in the date/time options. So it definitely is doable!

[Dauphin]

More pressing needs for Mark methinks

So it definitely is doable!

You have been here long enough to know that what can be done ¹ what will be done.

[ixnay]

Oh, I know. I don't expect this to get done anytime soon...

although doing it would require all of 30 seconds...

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by ixnay37
Oh, I know. I don't expect this to get done anytime soon...

although doing it would require all of 30 seconds...

Add in another 30seconds to reset the clock and he would still finish before he started. I'm sure he can "make" the time to do it.