From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Wed Feb 26 13:40:00 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Wed, 26 Feb 92 13:39 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA13643; Wed, 26 Feb 92 13:32:04 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA19377; Wed, 26 Feb 92 13:19:49 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA06837; Wed, 26 Feb 92 13:19:11 EST Message-Id: <9202261819.AA06837@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 3192; Wed, 26 Feb 92 13:17:43 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 6116; Wed, 26 Feb 92 13:17:02 EST Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 08:30:57 CST Reply-To: Rick Miller Sender: Lojban list From: Rick Miller Subject: Dates X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO Edmund Grimley-Evans writes: > If you write dates in the form 2002-03-04 then there is no danger of > confusion (except for dates before 32 AD), because if you start with > the year, you always follow it with the month. The form YYYY-MM-DD is > already widely used in the Esperanto-speaking world... I'll "second" this one... It only makes sense to stick with the standard of putting the most significant figures first. YYYY-MM-DD.hh:mm:ss.xxx...? Non-lojban-related trailer follows... So when do we start using 'metric' time (ie. deci-days, centi-days, milli-days, etc.)? Maybe it should be based on some other more standard unit of time... 1 [(Terran) day] == 86.4 kilo-seconds??? Personally, I'd go for the "day" unit, since it's tied to the human sleep-cycle. Any ideas for a less arbitrary standard unit? Just curious. Richard (Rick) Miller, Room A516 DNS: rick@discus.mil.wi.us Wisconsin Electric Power Company VOX: +1 414 221 3403 333 West Everett Street FAX: +1 414 221 3779 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203 USA My opinions are my own.