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Skriven 2010-04-04 22:45:52 av John Guillory (1:396/45)
     Kommentar till en text av Roy Witt
Ärende: Dates
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-> 30 Mar 10 18:41, David Drummond wrote to Roy Witt:

->  DD> It makes more sense than the format with jumbled magnitudes.

->  DD>>> Do you express elapsed time as hours, seconds and minutes?

->  RW>> No, I express it logically, hours, minutes and seconds.

->  DD> The why jumble the date format?

-> I give up, why do you jumble the date format when it is expressed more
-> logically by month, day and year? Only a computer needs to have it
-> backwards.

I've heard various reasoning's ... For the date he chooses it seems to
be drawn to the early days when mail was delivered upon horse back.
Mail delivery wasn't as effecient as todays, where you receive a letter
in plastic that says they're sorry but your letter got damaged in the
mail (just in case you didn't notice the fact that was ripped apart).
Back in those days it'd take sever weeks if not a few months to deliver
your message.... Then, they dated the message date, month, year  because
that was sorta the importance of knowing when the message was wirtten...
say I got the message today and it was dated 18 02 10 ....   Well, I
could look at the 18 and know it wasn't in the present month as 18th
hasn't arrived yet, so I just slide my eyes over to the right a little
and see the 02, and I realize it was written on febuary 18, 2010.  Then
I can deduct that it took that poor old horse about 6 weeks to get my
letter to me... Granted, I heard others that (as you say) for computer
purposes put the date in order of significance.... And at work, when I
name files via date to tell which ones are out-dated and can get rid of,
I name them filename-year-month-day  eg.  prices-2010-04-01.xls  ...
I suppose with all the various formats of dates, the only "safest" way
would be to represent them much like programming... eg.

   y.2010 m.4 d.4

That way you can put them in any order you want and everyone knows what
you mean, in the mean time.... what's the proper way to write april 4th,
2004?  04/04/04  or 04/04/04, or 04/04/04 ?




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