Dates

[Rick Miller <cbmvax!uunet!DISCUS.MIL.WI.US!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!rick>]

Edmund Grimley-Evans <uwm!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!RZ.UNI-SB.DE!dfkihueg> writes:
> If you write dates in the form 2002-03-04 then there is no danger of
> confusion (except for dates before 32 AD), because if you start with
> the year, you always follow it with the month. The form YYYY-MM-DD is
> already widely used in the Esperanto-speaking world...

I'll "second" this one... It only makes sense to stick with the standard
of putting the most significant figures first.  YYYY-MM-DD.hh:mm:ss.xxx...?

Non-lojban-related trailer follows...

So when do we start using 'metric' time (ie. deci-days, centi-days,
milli-days, etc.)?  Maybe it should be based on some other more standard
unit of time... 1 [(Terran) day] == 86.4 kilo-seconds???  Personally,
I'd go for the "day" unit, since it's tied to the human sleep-cycle.
Any ideas for a less arbitrary standard unit?  Just curious.

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