[CS-FSLUG] OT: date/time and numbers

[Alan Trick]

I prefer the either fully written out or the YYYY/MM/DD format. That way
there's the least confusion. If you think about it, YYYY/MM/DD makes a
lot more sense to because most other things go from the top on the left
to the bottom on the right too.

* time (hours:minutes:seconds)
* paths (/usr/src/linux)
* numbers

Alan Trick


On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:39 -0400, Frank Bax wrote:
> Somebody mentioned that a rare event happened early this morning because at 
> about 1:02 am the time was 01:02:03 04-05-06 in HH:MM:SS MM-DD-YY format.
> 
> I thought this was unusual to have the time come first, then figured out 
> that...
> 
> It happens again on May-5th with DD-MM-YY format (the 'standard' date 
> format in Canada).
> 
> Using D-M-Y H-M-S, it'll be 8-7-6-5-4-3 on Jul 8th and 4-5-6-7-8-9 on May 5th.
> 
> Using M-D-Y H-M-S, it'll be 8-7-6-5-4-3 on Aug 7th and 4-5-6-7-8-9 about 
> 7am this morning.
> 
> Using Y-M-D H-M-S, it'll be 06-07-08 09:10:11 on Jul-8th.
> 
> Interesting to note the patterns occur twice on each of three days this year.
> 
> On Jun-6, it'll be 6-6-6-6-6-6 and it doesn't matter what format you use 
> that day.
> 
> Apparently these "events" are not so rare after all.
> 
> 
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