From lalo@hackandroll.org Mon May 08 02:52:23 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24473 invoked from network); 8 May 2000 09:52:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 May 2000 09:52:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO qg.egroups.com) (10.1.2.27) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 May 2000 09:52:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 11850 invoked from network); 8 May 2000 09:52:22 -0000 Received: from n1.onelist.org (HELO hh.egroups.com) (10.1.10.40) by iqg.egroups.com with SMTP; 8 May 2000 09:52:22 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: lalo@hackandroll.org Received: from [10.1.10.112] by hh.egroups.com with NNFMP; 08 May 2000 09:52:22 -0000 Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 09:52:14 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Date format (Re: Lojban / Most translated Web Page) Message-ID: <8f62oe+a6h5@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1860 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster From: "Lalo Martins" --- In lojban@egroups.com, pycyn@a... wrote: > In a message dated 5/7/00 5:47:54 PM CST, jjllambias@h... writes: > > As I just said about some other meshugash, this "logical" has nothing to do > with Lojban being a logical language, and so that line of chat is irrelevant > here. The pattern of relevance for the order of things is consistently > throughout the language "most used first" (or "least used last") so long as > it is consistent with the basic design. The dmy date format, along with the > hms time one seems to follow from that. Personally I like Julian dates to 3 > sig places each side the decimal, but that never seems to get far. I beg to disagree. There isn't really "most used first" for dates. If you're talking about the near future or past, you will probably use only the day or day/month; however, if you're talking about the distant future/past ("distant" as in from a few years on), you will probably use only the year or month/year. When were you born? :-) And replying to a different subthread: I don't think lojban should concentrate on emulating existing languages. Leave that to Interlingua (it does a pretty good job at that). I'm not sure we need a standard date format; but if we do, pick the one which will be used most easily in real conversation/writing, and forget "backwards compatibility". (sorry to "newbie in", but it's a subject I'm very interested in, as my job consists mainly of maintaining news sites) []s, |alo +---- -- Hack and Roll ( http://www.hackandroll.org ) News for, uh, whatever it is that we are. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:lalo@hackandroll.org pgp key in the personal page Brazil of Darkness (RPG) --- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar