From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: :-) A Brand-New Language! :-)
Date: 2000/04/02
Date: 2000-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c8016$iqk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38E7924F.FD170A14@quadruscorp.com
In article <38E7924F.FD170A14@quadruscorp.com>,
"Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> wrote:
> Keith Thompson wrote:
> > You mean 2000-04-01? (See ISO-8601.)
> >
> That's a much prettier format for any data processing
> considerations.
True, but it is ugly for humans, and as you (Marin) pointed
out, newsgroup articles are for human consumption :-)
Note incidentally that the "windowing" technique for dealing
with the Y2K problem is precisely an attempt to do what a human
does on encountering a two digit date, i.e. to use context to
resolve which century it is in.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-31 0:00 :-) A Brand-New Language! :-) John Herro
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Magnus Larsson
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-03 0:00 ` John Herro
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Karel Thoenissen
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Karel Thoenissen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` pascal.martin
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-04-02 0:00 ` G
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-02 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-01 0:00 ` G
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-02 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-04-04 0:00 ` Vinzent Hoefler
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