Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]year/month/day is sure better for keeping track of photos because it makes them show up in chronological order when arranged alphabetically in computer windows. ric On Aug 9, 2010, at 10:26 AM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote: > Month, Day, Year seems perfectly logical to me. But then I'm just an > igornant 'Merican. ;-) > > Gene > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, August 9, 2010 2:10:16 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: Re: [Leica] Today is 8/9/10 > > Hi Mark, > AFAIK North America is the only place in the world to use the > month-day-year format, (can anybody correct that??) which is illogical, > like feet-inches-yards for distance or minute-second-day for shorter times. > Most places I have visited in the world use day-month-year, which has a > logic like inches-feet-miles. > Japan, and probably other countries in this region(???) use > year-month-day, which is the most logical IMHO, and the one I use for > photograph files FWIW. It is like miles-feet-inches and is compatible with > hours-minutes-seconds. Sensible. > Frank > > On 9 Aug, 2010, at 06:58, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> That's because you're from over there. >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> >> >>> From: Michiel Fokkema <michiel.fokkema at gmail.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 07:51:25 +0200 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Today is 8/9/10 >>> >>> Actually it's 9/8/10. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Michiel Fokkema >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Greystacks, > 18 Denchworth Road, > Wantage, > OX12 9AU > > +44 (0)1235 768505 > +44 (0)7803 135214 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information