02-28-2005 at Moorgate

Does anyone know if anything will be happening on this date at that
station?

TheOneKEA wrote:
> Does anyone know if anything will be happening on this date at that
> station?

Hopefully a number of trains will arrive and depart in complete safety?

Brimstone wrote:
> TheOneKEA wrote:
> > Does anyone know if anything will be happening on this date at that
> > station?
>
> Hopefully a number of trains will arrive and depart in complete
safety?

Of course!

Tim Miller wrote:
> TheOneKEA wrote:
> > Does anyone know if anything will be happening on this date at that
> > station?
>
> Which is the 28th month?

Would 2005-02-28 be more descriptive then?

Notice that 2005-02-28 occurs thirty years after 1975-02-28; thirty
years is usually a major milestone.

"TheOneKEA" <theonekea@> wrote in message
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> Tim Miller wrote:
>> TheOneKEA wrote:
>> > Does anyone know if anything will be happening on this date at that
>> > station?
>>
>> Which is the 28th month?
>
> Would 2005-02-28 be more descriptive then?
>
> Notice that 2005-02-28 occurs thirty years after 1975-02-28; thirty
> years is usually a major milestone.

Why not write it the right way round?
Aaron

"Aaron Borbora" <aaron.borbora@merton.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "TheOneKEA" <theonekea@> wrote in message
> news:1107790167.946821.180640@o13g2000cwo. o...
> > Tim Miller wrote:
> >> TheOneKEA wrote:
> >> > Does anyone know if anything will be happening on this date at that
> >> > station?
> >>
> >> Which is the 28th month?
> >
> > Would 2005-02-28 be more descriptive then?
> >
> > Notice that 2005-02-28 occurs thirty years after 1975-02-28; thirty
> > years is usually a major milestone.
>
> Why not write it the right way round?

yyyy-mm-dd is by far and away the most logical way round, as all dates are
entirely in numerical (if discontinuous) order. All numbers are in order of
significance. It can be extended to yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss, and still be
entirely consistent.

Very useful for filing. If something occurs at an unknown time on a known
day, or on an unknown day in a known month, the order of significant numbers
is retained, just with varying degrees of accuracy.

I find it odd that when I was 14 (11 years ago now), probably inspired by
Star Trek, I independently devised the yyyy-mm-dd system on my own, only to
discover later that most people in field did the same thing - came up with
it on their own, but noticed that everyone else uses it too. Strange!

Ronnie

David Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:41:57 +0000 someone who may be "Clive D. W.
> Feather" <clive@on-the-train.> wrote this:-
>
>
>>2005-02-28 *is* the right way round.
>
> Incorrect.
>

No, that is correct

>
>>ISO 8601 refers.
>
> So what?
>
> The message was posted to uk.railway and it would have been sensible
> to use standard UK date format for the subject line.

However, the internet is trully international, and just because it's a
UK newsgroup doesn't mean people from outside the UK don't read it. In
fact, I'm a Brit and have started using the ISO8601 format a lot more
due to my work with computers. It's such a sensible format (much easier
to sort) I'm surprised it isn't used more.