ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (02/02/90)
In article <10973@etana.tut.fi> av74381@korppi.tut.fi (Vesterinen Arto) writes: | ... | I would like to make things little easier for my users and get a Finnish | speaking BBS software. There are also other confusing things than language, | for example dates should be of form dd-mm-yy, not mm-dd-yy. I agree that mm-dd-yy is not good, but neither is dd-mm-yy has its problems, too. There is international agreement on this form yyyy-mm-dd and that is why ISO has standardized it. Everybody understands it the first time; for instance 1990-02-01 would not likely be mistaken to mean Jan 2nd. (It makes perfect sense if you consider the logical continuation yyyy-mm-dd hh:ss.) You should make your bulletin board conform to the new standard so that young bbs users will learn the "best" way. | Time should be military time, not AM/PM form. What makes the 24 hour clock "military" time. There are lots of items used by military personnel, but that does not make the item "military". -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu