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

[Frank Bax]

Personally, I tend to use YYYY-Mmm-DD so that it's not necessary to 
translate a numeric month.


At 05:08 AM 4/6/06, Alan Trick wrote:

>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.