[lojban-beginners] Re: explicit time and space

["Theodore Reed" <ted.reed@gmail.com>]

On 7/6/06, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 July 2006 07:50, djim.dyBEL. wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 July 2006 12:22, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > > Dates are said in the order YYYY-MM-DD when said as a number.
> >
> > Is this a recent change?  Lojban for Beginners seems to say it's the other
> > way around, and the errata on the wiki doesn't list this as a mistake.
> >
> > http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less5dates.html
>
> {pi'e} is used to separate digits in bases greater than 16 and to separate
> numbers in a compound number, which can be any of various things, such as:
> a map book and page number: vovopi'ecixapa, 44-361;
> a continued fraction, in which the components sort alternately up and down;
> a time, which is actually a base 60 number;
> a chapter and verse in the Bible.
> In all of these, the most significant number comes first. It makes no sense to
> do it the other way around with dates.

This is a case where there is no official sanction one way or the
other, but many of us have decided to use ISO standard format, as phma
suggests.

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