OK one last question (be honest now) have you ever been really screwed by mixing up European vs US dates, like buying a plane ticket for 5/6/1989 and showing up on May 6th.
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Of course. Giving date of birth over the phone in USA still throws me. Luckily I am normally forgiven for my strange colonial ways! Never got it quite that wrong though.
Throw us a few crumbs JC - what mods have you done? What's the lowest hanging fruit there?
Not quite that, but I have had some problems with computer locales, because it affects how they return dates and times. It's a nightmare, actually, calendar arithmetic, reconciliation of timezones.
I did just that the past return trip back to Calif. I showed up at airport overseas to leave and it had left the day before.... [but they put me on that days flight anyway as there was space available]. My ride had no idea i would be 24 hours late into San Fransisco and had to find a hotel when he finally learned I wasnt on the flight. It can get pretty nuts going back and forth and all around.
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I would change the audio wiring to get better xtalk, better power supply caps and diodes to start.
> It can get pretty nuts going back and forth and all around.
Especially if you go round and round in the same direction as to transcend time !
Especially if you go round and round in the same direction as to transcend time !
Numeric dates are crazy, there is no standard. Unless a form/ticket/statement specifically labels the date format (eg., YYYY/mm/dd), it should use words or abbreviations. If one says "May 6th" it is unambiguous and will never be confused with "Jun 5th". You may say "European vs US dates", but I say "no such thing"; from what I have seen, there are no real standards on either side of the pond, not even local conventions. I see this at work all the time, users supply a date in a bad format to a stored procedure and stuff breaks. One tool used at work allows adding a date stamp to a file name, and the format can be chosen from yyyymmdd, yyyyddmm, ddmmyyyy, mmddyyyy, yymmdd, ddmmyy, mmddyy, yyddmm, and you can also add the time with some additional options. (Oh, and is that the current date/time or the date/time of the report?)
Don't even get me started on time zones or the abomination called "Daylight Savings".
Don't even get me started on time zones or the abomination called "Daylight Savings".
I always wondered why US and English people were not talking French like everybody.
Although in Britain we would write "6th May" or "5th June", which we pronounce as "the sixth of May" or "the fifth of June".nezbleu said:
Our way of doing it has the merit of keeping units in size order: day, month, year. Strangely, we all agree to say/write times in the opposite order: hour, minute, second.
I guess the other way of doing it has the merit of keeping units in the order you would write them in prose and say them: month, day, year.
When making filenames from dates the order ought to be yymmdd, so sorting can occur. I often don't do this, though, as I don't naturally think backwards!
Add to that a management with no appreciation of the impact of fiddling with part numbers, it's a miracle I didn't go postal.
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Increased signal-to-noise ratio in audio signals/greater
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"Quantum," "superconductor," Bay Area Area Code. But after a whois, I see that it's a Mark Berlottoni that's behind it.
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Perhaps frauds all smell the same?
They claim that these miracles were invented in Iowa. That should instill confidence in you.
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