Re: [lojban] How to specify dates with “detri”?

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Am Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:30:43 +0300
schrieb Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>:
> "Lojban for Beginners" has this solution:
> • If there is only one number, it is the day e.g.  li pano is ‘the
> 10th’. • If there are two numbers, they are the day and month e.g.
> li pano pi’e pare is 10/12, or ‘the 10th of
> December’.
> • If there are three numbers, they are day, month, year (not month,
> day, year, as in the American
> convention) e.g.  li repa pi’e ze pi’e pasoxaso is 21/7/69—the date
> of the first moon landing

Why isn't this (or something similar) in the official
definition (or in the notes)? :-(

I now had 3 different answers, each of them (more or less)
contradicting each other. :-(((

For insance, you say, the order is year, month, day, another one say its
day, month, year because of ISO. Official definition also uses the day,
month, year ordering.

It's nice you all try to explain how detri is used “in actual usage”,
but it seems that “actual usage” varies to a great extent, so it is not
really useful. :-/

IMO we need a clear and well-defined OFFICIAL definition for detri, not
several contradicting ad-hoc definitions.

According to your answers so far, I can't even safely make sense out of
something like “li pa pi'e re pi'e ci detri”, because you don't seem
to even agree on the ordering. :-(

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