2013/1/22 Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Andrew Errington <erringt...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Surely this is 'internal'. That is, it's nice that some people can read Mo, >> Tu, We, etc., but for others, they are just 'coded' days of the week. Date >> producers need to understand the meaning of Mo, Tu, etc. so that they can >> record them properly in the database, but data consumers need to translate >> these to something that can be displayed nicely. > > Except why use abbreviations that no one uses elsewhere?
Ehm..... I'm using it. And not only in OSM. And I doubt I'm the only one. > I've never seen two letter abbreviations for days of the week outside > OSM, in any computer system. Just look into my calendar: two-character abbreviations. > So why use a codification that no one else uses, to save a byte? Because it is used? Even pretty often - at least in my perception. regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
