Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:55:11 -0700
From: Theodore Reed (bancus) <rizen@surreality.us>
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dates
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:40:20 -0700 (PDT)
Travis Garris <ptg_thug@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was trying to make a simple, little date clock for
> my desktop, something to put more lojban in my
> environment to help memorize things.  As a result, I
> want it to be in text, not in numbers.  So I want "the
> 25 of June" instead of "6/25" (or "25/6").
> 
> So I have "remu pe'i xa".
> 
> I'd like to use "xavmast", but I'm not sure how to
> phrase that.  "remu pe'i xavmast"?  How do I add
> Wednesday ("cibdjed") to that?
> 
> As I'm looking over times, I found something that
> bothers me.  I figured I'd ask incase I'm just
> misunderstanding.
> 
> "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.
> 
> That just sits wrong with me.

And with me. I prefer bigendian, or MSB (MSNumber?) first.
I believe this is also an ISO standard date format:

YYYY-MM-DD

To facilitate easier sorting. I like it too, and use it whenever
possible.

Here's a related question. How would you relate time zone
info? As in "16:24 -0700"? (-0700 being Pacific Daylight Time, my
current time zone)

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