13-Mar-02 at 09:35, Sven Guckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > I started using "[yymmdd]" as a date indicator on my webpages > before Markus Kuhn wrote ISO-8601 (in 1995) - so sue me! ;-)
Well, that's no excuse for not having become year 2000 compliant. The big problem with dates is the American vs. European format, so that 02/03 can be 2nd March (Europe) and 3rd February (US), which confuses the hell out of everyone. This is why I use the month name, which is in English but probably still better than being ambiguous. 99% of people I write to will understand the English month name abbreviations. Post 1999 you are adding to this confusion since the 2 digit year could also be interpreted as a month for the next 10 years, and as a day for the next 29... and yymmdd, yyddmm, mmddyy and ddmmyy are all configurations that are parsed by the brain before concluding properly. On attributions: One problem with quoting the email address is that some people with ridiculously long emails can cause wrap. You're not far off, Sven, with your 13 characters and the extra dot for subdomain, and that's just the right hand side of the @ not including the TLD. If you had a middle name which you quoted in your real name you would cause wrap. You are thus contradicting yourself if you say it should stay on one line, considering the enormous length of some email addresses and real names. -- |-Simon White # GIMPS current unit progress: 38.19% #-| |-Internet Services Manager # > http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm #-| |-MTDS S.A. 14, rue 16 novembre :-Pd-; tel: +212.3.737.4861-| |-Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco Cyberneckin' fax: +212.3.737.4863-|
