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

[Chris Townley]

On 12/07/2023 15:07, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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…
> 

I started using it before ISO-8601 (first published 1988), when it was 
the Japanese date format.

-- 
Chris