palindrome nirvana

[bill deutschman]

That's neat but only if you are European where the dates are day.month.year.
 It doesn't work in the US where we write month/day/year.

Many years ago I learned the problems of world wide time & dates when I was
flying a space telescope.  We had problems with the date and the problem that
computer programmers slashed o's (the letter) and radio people slashed 0's (the
numeral) to tell them apart.  We finally agreed that everyone would put a dot
in the center of the "oh" and do nothing with the zero.  We were to write the
date as day,Month,year, e.g. 20-Feb-02.

The internet is helping to "harmonize" the world but there are still some
differences.

I know this has little Camino content but pilgrims from the US should know that
most of Europe uses 24 hour time and prints dates as day.month.year.  They also
use the decimal point to separate telephone numbers rather than () and -.  They
also interchange the decimal point and the comma in their number system.
  (e.g. US $1,000.00 and Europe $1.000,00 for one thousand dollars or Euros.)

I'm not saying one is better than the other, just that they are different.

bill

bill deutschman
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Diane     Grust [SMTP:DEG33aAOL.COM]
Sent:   Sunday, February 17, 2002 6:09 PM
To:     GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
Subject:        palindrome nirvana

As the clock ticks over from 8.01pm on Wednesday, February 20, time will,

for sixty seconds only, read in perfect symmetry 2002, 2002, 2002, or to be

more precise - 20:02, 20/02, 2002. The last occasion that time read in such a

symmetrical pattern was long before the days of the digital watch and the

24-hour clock - at 10.01am on January 10,1001.


And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something that will NEVER

happen again.

Fodder for something
Diane