From phma@oltronics.net Thu Sep 13 05:46:46 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 13 Sep 2001 12:46:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 74507 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2001 12:45:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Sep 2001 12:45:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.243) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Sep 2001 12:45:15 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id E0D6F3C476; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:04:58 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:04:57 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010913004255.C1780@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010913004255.C1780@twcny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01091301045709.27443@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Thursday 13 September 2001 00:42, Rob Speer wrote: > I think there is an intrinsic reason. Dates go from smaller to larger > units, and times go from larger to smaller. Combining them like that gives > the bizarre order: hour, minute, [second], day, month, year. > > Does that work? It seems to me that pi'e should bear at least some > resemblance to an ordinary decimal point. I think that when dates and times are combined, and they are all numeric, the order should be year, month, day, hour, minute, second. phma