From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 25 17:14:14 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19VKP0-0007Vw-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:14:14 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:14:14 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dates Message-ID: <20030626001414.GE31328@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20030625164020.60358.qmail@web13004.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030625164020.60358.qmail@web13004.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 390 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:40:20AM -0700, Travis Garris wrote: > "papa pe'i pa": Is that 11:01 or January 11? That depends on > where it is used, which is fine. When telling time, it reads hour > "pe'i" minute, larger unit "pe'i" smaller unit. When telling the > date, it tells day "pe'i" month, smaller unit "pe'i" larger unit. The Correct Solution is Nick's. To wit: *always* use four digits for the year. Always always always. That way, as long as you don't use the insane American month-day-year crap (i.e., whether you go from days to years or years to days, as long as you do it in order), everything works out. Samples: 2003-10-01: 1 Oct, 2003. 2003-10: Oct, 2003 2003: Duh. 01-10-2003: 1 Oct, 2003 01-10: 1 Oct 01: Day 1, no particular month or year. There is no way to have ambiguity as long as you do the year in 4 digits and you don't to mixed-endian (i.e. month-day-year). -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui