On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, David T-G wrote:
> Rob, et al --
> ...and then Rob Reid said...
> %
[snip]
> % Netscape/LookOut users, and David himself seems to enjoy the attention.
> Actually, I don't, but that doesn't seem to keep it from coming my way,
> does it? If such attention is the price I p
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, darren chamberlain wrote:
> Quoting Rob Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Mar 12, 2002 18:43]:
> > Modified Julian Dates are completely numeric and therefore
> > suitable for all Earthlings (not just astronomers) but
> > unfortunately my /bin/date, from Red Hat's sh-utils-2.0-11 RPM,
Quoting Rob Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Mar 12, 2002 18:43]:
> Modified Julian Dates are completely numeric and therefore
> suitable for all Earthlings (not just astronomers) but
> unfortunately my /bin/date, from Red Hat's sh-utils-2.0-11 RPM,
> doesn't support them. It really should.
Completely
Rob, et al --
...and then Rob Reid said...
%
% At 5:25 PM EST on March 12 Knute sent off:
% > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Rob Reid wrote:
% > > Anyway, if I didn't know that today is March 12, 2002, I'd be tempted to
% > > read 020312 as an American zip code,
% >
% > American zip codes are either 5 o
* Rob Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12 Mar 2002 15:44]:
>
> I'm against 6 digit dates as a communication standard because they're
> easy to misinterpret.
Same; hence my choice of the above attribution :-) It's bad enough
trying to sort out 12/03/02, 03/12/02 or 02/03/12. Trying to read
120302, 03120
At 5:25 PM EST on March 12 Knute sent off:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Rob Reid wrote:
> > Anyway, if I didn't know that today is March 12, 2002, I'd be tempted to
> > read 020312 as an American zip code,
>
> American zip codes are either 5 or 9 digits, not 6! :)
Oh? 90210...yep. Anyway, as a non
