Re: Date Help - D&T stamp w Short dates
Re: Date Help - D&T stamp w Short dates
- Subject: Re: Date Help - D&T stamp w Short dates
- From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:23:18 -0500
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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:14:20 -0800
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From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Date Help - D&T stamp w Short dates
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> At 4:34 -0800 1/11/2003, Patrick D. Fox wrote:
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>> IDEAL1: 01-06-03 09-23-21 AM (mm-dd-yy)
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>> IDEAL2: 2003-01-06 09-23-21 AM (yyyy-mm-dd)
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If you're ever going to want to sort strings (eg file names) containing
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these time stamps, forget #1 and use #2, modified to 2a, which uses 24 hour
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time, not the foolish American 12 hour clock.
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2a: 2003-01-06 21-23-21 (moving your example forward 12 hours so the 24
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hour time is obvious...keep the leading zero on hours 0 through 9)
For those foolish Americans who cannot wrap their minds around the concept
of the 24 hour clock, the following format will also allow a temporal sort:
2003-12-31 AM 12-59-59
2003-12-31 PM 12-59-59
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
I have always suspected that Washington state is not a part of
foolish America. ;-)
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