From pycyn@aol.com Thu Sep 13 08:48:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 13 Sep 2001 15:48:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 18381 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2001 15:43:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Sep 2001 15:43:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m08.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.163) by mta2 with SMTP; 13 Sep 2001 15:43:03 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.4.) id r.147.187348e (4324) for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:39:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <147.187348e.28d22d2f@aol.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:39:27 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_147.187348e.28d22d2f_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_147.187348e.28d22d2f_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/13/2001 7:49:27 AM Central Daylight Time, phma@oltronics.net writes: > I think that when dates and times are combined, and they are all numeric, > the > order should be year, month, day, hour, minute, second. > In Lojban, the order is day-month-year (see {detri}) -- the rule in Lojban is "put the less significant, more likely to be dropped, item later. The niceties of pretty orders of a mathematical sort are irrelevant. See earlier Record, often repeated, alas. --part1_147.187348e.28d22d2f_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/13/2001 7:49:27 AM Central Daylight Time,
phma@oltronics.net writes:


I think that when dates and times are combined, and they are all numeric,
the
order should be year, month, day, hour, minute, second.


In Lojban, the order is day-month-year (see {detri})  -- the rule in Lojban
is "put the less significant, more likely to be dropped, item later.  The
niceties of pretty orders of a mathematical sort are irrelevant.  See earlier
Record, often repeated, alas. --part1_147.187348e.28d22d2f_boundary--