From jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Mon Dec 02 18:22:17 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 3 Dec 2002 02:22:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 53936 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2002 02:22:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Dec 2002 02:22:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2002 02:22:16 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18J2hT-0004Fe-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:22:15 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18J2hN-0004FE-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:22:09 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from bodhi.math.ucla.edu ([128.97.4.253]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18J2hH-0004Eo-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:22:03 -0800 Received: from localhost (bodhi.math.ucla.edu [128.97.4.253]) by bodhi.math.ucla.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB32LwR4007438 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:21:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:21:58 -0800 (PST) To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Specific example of Sapir-Whorf in English OR How Lojban made me think more clearly In-Reply-To: <0212021951210C.24805@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 2934 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jimc@math.ucla.edu Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Jim Carter Reply-To: jimc@math.ucla.edu X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810565 On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I use big-endian when writing a date in figures, whether in English or > Lojban. The order of a fully-spelled-out date in English is dow month day > year, in French is dow day month year, and in Lojban is day month year dow. Dare I mention ISO 8601, which mandates YYYY-MO-DY etc? At work, files are sooooo much easier to handle since we converted everything to ISO 8601 format. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)