X-Digest-Num: 162 Message-ID: <44114.162.948.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:01:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Evgueni.Sklyanin" Subject: Re: lo xajmi tersitna X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 948 Content-Length: 1209 Lines: 43 <375dd48c.59d47a5-@texas.net> wrote: Original Article: http://www.egroups.com/group/lojban/?start=1310 > From: John Minot > la djan. mainat. cusku di'e > > I'm really drawing a blank on how to write down date/time in Lojban. > Can someone provide me with a brief explanation on how to write "The > time is 9:38 PM. The date is Tuesday, June 8th, 1999," all that? > That's one of my biggest stumbling blocks so far. > > coi djan. There is an explanation in the draft textbook, lesson 10.8 http://www.animal.helsinki.fi/lojftp/draft-textbook/lesson10 Briefly, you write the time in the 24-hours format 'hours:minutes', for instance 9:38 PM = 21:38, and translate into lojban using {pi'e} for the semicolon The time is 9:38 PM = li repa pi'ecibi cu tcika Similarly, the format for the date is 'day-of-week:week:day:month:year' (number of the week is usually omitted), for instance, Tuesday, June 8th, 1999 = 3::8:6:1999 The date is Tuesday, June 8th, 1999 = li ci pi'epi'e bi pi'exa pi'epasososo cu detri See also an explanation by Jorge Llambias http://www.egroups.com/group/lojban/23.html? in the posting of May 10, 1998 (=10:5:1998) co'o mi'e .evgenis.