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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-07-12 kl. 15:12, skrev 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
> 

Which is also the international ISO-8601 standard date/time format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601.

Not sure why you call it "Japanese date". Japan is just one of approx.
50 countries that has adopted ISO-8601 as its national standard.
But there is nothing else ”Japanese” about this format.

To simplify everything, it would be better to use the ISO-6801 standard.

ISO-8601 has also been adopted as an US national standard:
ANSI INCITS 30-1997 (R2008) and NIST FIPS PUB 4-2.

See the link above for further details…