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Zyxel - False Advertising! - Beware of this Company! Le Chaud Lapin 07-02-2008
Posted by seaweedsl on July 6, 2008, 3:16 pm
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>
> Don't do that, you silly person. We have trouble enough with the
> braindead ``nuxi''-style US date format as is. According to ISO8601
> "2008-06-02" is 2nd June *only*. In fact, this sort of silly doubting is
> why that standard exists in the first place.
>
> Repeat after me: YYYY-MM-DD; fullyear dash month dash day and no other
> interpretations. If for whatever reason you have to fuck up the order,
> you write the month as Roman numbers or the month name or abbreviation.
>
> --

In the US it's definitely DD-MM-YYYY. I'm trying to get used to the
"braindead" (insult-speak for "not the way we do it"-eh?) method
they use in Mexico, um, MM-DD-YYYY I think.

But now I have to fill out all these US goverment forms right now,and
they are very strict about DD-MM-YYYY. They will reject the form if I
attempt to adhere to somebody else's standard.


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Posted by Jeff Liebermann on July 6, 2008, 7:30 pm
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:16:00 -0700 (PDT), seaweedsl

>In the US it's definitely DD-MM-YYYY. I'm trying to get used to the
>"braindead" (insult-speak for "not the way we do it"-eh?) method
>they use in Mexico, um, MM-DD-YYYY I think.
>
>But now I have to fill out all these US goverment forms right now,and
>they are very strict about DD-MM-YYYY. They will reject the form if I
>attempt to adhere to somebody else's standard.

Methinks you have it backwards. If you're running W2K or XP, go to:
Control Panel -> Regional Options -> Date.
For the USA, it's M/d/yyyy

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Posted by Le Chaud Lapin on July 6, 2008, 9:33 pm
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> >In the US it's definitely DD-MM-YYYY. =A0I'm trying to get used to the
> >"braindead" =A0 (insult-speak for "not the way we do it"-eh?) method
> >they use in Mexico, um, =A0MM-DD-YYYY I think.
>
> >But now I have to fill out all these US goverment forms right now,and
> >they are very strict about DD-MM-YYYY. =A0They will reject the form if I
> >attempt to adhere to somebody else's standard.
>
> Methinks you have it backwards. =A0If you're running W2K or XP, go to:
> =A0 =A0Control Panel -> Regional Options -> Date.
> For the USA, it's M/d/yyyy

It can be changed of course. I have mine set as YYYY-MM-DD on Vista.

I was under the impression, as jpd noted, that the ISO standard format
is YYYY-MM-DD:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

Makes sense, as it eliminates ambiguity if one has to correspond
internationally.

I have been writing my dates on checks and other paper this way since
1993.

-Le Chaud Lapin-

Posted by Rich Seifert on July 7, 2008, 11:44 am
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In article

> > >In the US it's definitely DD-MM-YYYY.  I'm trying to get used to the
> > >"braindead"   (insult-speak for "not the way we do it"-eh?) method
> > >they use in Mexico, um,  MM-DD-YYYY I think.
> >
> > >But now I have to fill out all these US goverment forms right now,and
> > >they are very strict about DD-MM-YYYY.  They will reject the form if I
> > >attempt to adhere to somebody else's standard.
> >
> > Methinks you have it backwards.  If you're running W2K or XP, go to:
> >    Control Panel -> Regional Options -> Date.
> > For the USA, it's M/d/yyyy
>
> It can be changed of course. I have mine set as YYYY-MM-DD on Vista.
>
> I was under the impression, as jpd noted, that the ISO standard format
> is YYYY-MM-DD:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
>
> Makes sense, as it eliminates ambiguity if one has to correspond
> internationally.
>
> I have been writing my dates on checks and other paper this way since
> 1993.
>

I usually write dates as:

DD MMM YYYY

where the day and year are numeric, and the month is in alpha; e.g.,
today is: 7 July 2008. This avoids all ambiguity, even the ambiguity as
to which standard one is using, since there can be no confusion as to
which two-digit number is the day, and which is the month.


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Posted by Le Chaud Lapin on July 7, 2008, 12:00 pm
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wrote:
> In article

> > > >In the US it's definitely DD-MM-YYYY. =A0I'm trying to get used to t=
he
> > > >"braindead" =A0 (insult-speak for "not the way we do it"-eh?) method
> > > >they use in Mexico, um, =A0MM-DD-YYYY I think.
>
> > > >But now I have to fill out all these US goverment forms right now,an=
d
> > > >they are very strict about DD-MM-YYYY. =A0They will reject the form =
if I
> > > >attempt to adhere to somebody else's standard.
>
> > > Methinks you have it backwards. =A0If you're running W2K or XP, go to=
:
> > > =A0 =A0Control Panel -> Regional Options -> Date.
> > > For the USA, it's M/d/yyyy
>
> > It can be changed of course. I have mine set as YYYY-MM-DD on Vista.
>
> > I was under the impression, as jpd noted, that the ISO standard format
> > is YYYY-MM-DD:
>
> >http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
>
> > Makes sense, as it eliminates ambiguity if one has to correspond
> > internationally.
>
> > I have been writing my dates on checks and other paper this way since
> > 1993.
>
> I usually write dates as:
>
> DD MMM YYYY
>
> where the day and year are numeric, and the month is in alpha; e.g.,
> today is: 7 July 2008. This avoids all ambiguity, even the ambiguity as
> to which standard one is using, since there can be no confusion as to
> which two-digit number is the day, and which is the month.

This works well for English speakers, speakers of certain Romanized
languages from which "July" can be inferred, and poorly for everyone
else, which is several billion people. :)

We must not forget the significance of the "I" in "ISO".

-Le Chaud Lapin-

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