[Ham-Mac] Re: Ham-Mac Digest, Vol 34, Issue 1

[David Ferrington]

Playing devil's advocate and in defence of American fellow hams - the rest
of the world doesn't always do it this way - I wish they would.
In the UK, there are probably 50% of people that write dates as DD/MM/YY

I always try to write dates that will need to be read by a human as
DD-Mon-YY, DDmonYY or DD Mon YY, but for a computer, YYYYMMDD is better, is
its easy to sort the date that way (YYYYMMDDHHMISS is including time)

Use Spotlight on Tiger :-)


On 1/11/06 9:01 am, "ham-mac-request at mailman.qth.net"
<ham-mac-request at mailman.qth.net> sent:

>> 
>> As for the date format, I was  taught it should be 31 OCT 2006,
>> with the month in the middle using the common, three-letter
>> abbreviation, not numbers. This way there is no confusion.
>> 
> 
> I agree.  This is the way that the rest of the world does it and we
> should adapt (don't even ask me about metric).
> 73 - Bob, N7XY
>