From jimc@math.ucla.edu Mon Dec 02 18:22:08 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from bodhi.math.ucla.edu ([128.97.4.253]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18J2hH-0004Eo-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:22:03 -0800 Received: from localhost (bodhi.math.ucla.edu [128.97.4.253]) by bodhi.math.ucla.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB32LwR4007438 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:21:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:21:58 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Carter To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Specific example of Sapir-Whorf in English OR How Lojban made me think more clearly In-Reply-To: <0212021951210C.24805@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 2934 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jimc@math.ucla.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I use big-endian when writing a date in figures, whether in English or > Lojban. The order of a fully-spelled-out date in English is dow month day > year, in French is dow day month year, and in Lojban is day month year dow. Dare I mention ISO 8601, which mandates YYYY-MO-DY etc? At work, files are sooooo much easier to handle since we converted everything to ISO 8601 format. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)