[Info-vax] EISNER downtime from 12-JUL-2023 through 17-JUL-2023

[Chris Townley]

On 12/07/2023 13:30, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 12:21 +0100, John Dallman wrote:
>>> At least they didn't use US centric dates.
>>
>> The VMS date format, as per the subject line, was first standardised
>> by the US Department of Defense. They picked it because it isn't
>> anyone's native format, but everyone can understand it.
>>
>> I work for a British branch of a US-based company that's owned by a
>> German firm. I use VMS format dates for all official communications,
>> even though we haven't had VMS running for over twenty years.
> 
> It's perfect.

That is of course one form of standard UK date. I also regularly use the 
DEC comparison format, aka Japanese date, of YYYY-MM-DD as sortable, and 
also unmistakeable

-- 
Chris