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Ah - Dates, again :)

The military has some crazy configurations for dates/times but it was from them that I picked up a system that no one ever has problems with assuming they know the months of the year in English. 6 May 07 or 5 Jun 07, etc.
 
It is not true that it won't happen again. Exactly the same situation will pop up agin in a 100 years time.
 
Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had some tyrannical god contrived to enslave our minds to time, to make it all but impossible for us to escape subjection to sodden routines and unpleasant surprises, he could hardly have done better than handing down our present system. It is like a set of trapezoidal building blocks, with no vertical or horizontal surfaces, like a language in which the simplest thought demands ornate constructions, useless particles and lengthy circumlocutions. Unlike the more successful patterns of language and science, which enable us to face experience boldly or at least level-headedly, our system of temporal calculation silently and persistently encourages our terror of time.

... It is as though architects had to measure length in feet, width in meters and height in ells; as though basic instruction manuals demanded a knowledge of five different languages. It is no wonder then that we often look into our own immediate past or future, last Tuesday or a week from Sunday, with feelings of helpless confusion. ...
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Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living.
 
to.by said:
It is not true that it won't happen again. Exactly the same situation will pop up agin in a 100 years time.
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Unless there's something Scot Morris knows that he's not telling us...
 
to.by said:
It is not true that it won't happen again. Exactly the same situation will pop up agin in a 100 years time.
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Yes, perhaps if he'd said "It won't happen again in your lifetime." Of course, there could be some kids reading the Commentary for whom that will prove incorrect as well...

Whenever I have to save a file with a common name, with a date, I always save it in the format 070506 (YYMMDD) for sorting purposes.

We used to have a cable TV traffic cam with a clock on the screen. About ten seconds before it occurred, I realized I should have recorded the moment of 01/01/01 01:01:01, but I didn't have enough time to put the tape in. (New Year's Day, I was up anyway).
 
At three minutes and four seconds after 12 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 12:03:04 05/06/07.
 
alfaniner said:
Yes, perhaps if he'd said "It won't happen again in your lifetime." Of course, there could be some kids reading the Commentary for whom that will prove incorrect as well...

Whenever I have to save a file with a common name, with a date, I always save it in the format 070506 (YYMMDD) for sorting purposes.

We used to have a cable TV traffic cam with a clock on the screen. About ten seconds before it occurred, I realized I should have recorded the moment of 01/01/01 01:01:01, but I didn't have enough time to put the tape in. (New Year's Day, I was up anyway).
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You may want to use the full date (YYYY). I used to save files the way you did, but then 99 went to 00! :)
 
On my way into work this morning, I saw a license plate that said KJX-97Y. What are the odds of that happening?
 
Us Australians have to wait another month for the 5/6/7 date. To us it says 5 June 2007. So Randi is doubly wrong. It will happen again in one year. Not to mention 07/07/07. At seven past seven then the world ends. Twice in one day.
 
Just use:
ISO Standard 8601 for Datesand Times as we do i Sweden and the confusion will go away....

check:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
 
The only conclusion I can come to is that the end of the world will happen in different places on different dates.

I am making my travel plans.
 
Have you ever noticed that the so-called "natural" numbers occur in order? I mean ... what are the chances of that happening? What's 'natural' about that? Scary!!
 
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