A little over 30 years ago, almost all nations agreed (when else has this happened? -- over the postal system, perhaps -- not over copyright ?) on the (adoption and) use of the ``metric system''. I quote from the Metric Style Guide: For example, April 7, 1975, is expressed as 1975 04 07. Alternative ways of writing this numeric date are 1975-04-07 or 19750407. Times can be appended, using the 24-hour clock. R. On Wed, 11 May 2005, Alonso Del Arte wrote:
As much sense as DDMMYYYY makes (smallest unit to largerst unit), many of us live where MMDDYYYY is more prevalent, or even MMDDYY, as well as miles and gallons. So here 20 May 2005 is 5/20/2005, hardly special from the point of view of symmetry. Alonso
On 5/10/05, alexandre.wajnberg@skynet.be <alexandre.wajnberg@skynet.be> wrote:
Hello dear Seqfans and friends,
Nicolas Graner (member of the Oulipo litterary movement) has devised a ...