Once upon a time -- around about 7/6/05 08:05 --
possibly wrote:

Well we got em, here's to a nice quiet life on the underground...

As a Merkin, I will warn you all that I'm coming over for them. I probably
ought to reserve a room now, what don't you think? It's pretty much any
excuse for me to go to London, but this is a REASON not an excuse. I promise
to spend way too much in your city which has just made this year's CNN list
of the most expensive cities to live in (at #3 behind Tokyo an Osaka).

Congratulations.

Once upon a time -- around about 7/6/05 10:27 --
possibly wrote:

umpston wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:

And it was bloody brilliant!! Bring it on!

AMEN!! I, for one, am utterly delighted. Whether we actually enjoy
living here while it's happening is one thing - but I do think it will,
overall, be an excellent thing for London, and contribute enormously to
quality of life in that part of the capital after the event.
I am also glad to see most of you are happy about it. I know there will be
naysayers, but it will bring some great things to your city (ignoring the
actual COST of it, of course). Atlanta (I went to their Olympics) got great
new infrastructure and so will London.

Speaking of nay-sayers: Atlanta proved that an Olympics CAN be a break-even
or better proposition. London does NOT have to bankrupt itself.

To everyone: try volunteering. You'll have fun. There's many things you can
do, and for two weeks your city will be virtually shut down for everything
else anyway. Expect many companies to give up and just close for two weeks


-- CMOT


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"Not all men are fools. Some are bachelors." -- Anon

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(CMOT TMPV) wrote:

Once upon a time -- around about 7/6/05 08:05 --
possibly wrote:

....

As a Merkin,

We can see that from your date format - we make that
7th June. Why do Merkins put it like that? - D/M/Y or
Y/M/D seem a logical progression, M/D/Y doesn't. It's
like quoting a time as 6hrs 40 secs 10 mins.

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Peter Beale

"Peter Beale" wrote in message
.. .
In article ,
(CMOT TMPV) wrote:

We can see that from your date format - we make that
7th June. Why do Merkins put it like that? - D/M/Y or
Y/M/D seem a logical progression, M/D/Y doesn't. It's
like quoting a time as 6hrs 40 secs 10 mins.

Yes, I've never understood the logic of the American convention of not
putting the DMY in ascending (or decending) order of significance: either
DMY or YMD. The latter, while much less common, has the advantage that a
date stored as a text string in this format will sort into ascending order
of date.

Since I'm aware of the potential for confusion, I never write a date as
1/2/2005 because I know it could be interpreted as 1 Feb or Jan 2. Instead I
always write it as 1 Jan 2005 to avoid ambiguity. I suspect that more
Europeans know about the American convention being different (and the need
to avoid ambiguity) than the converse.

"Martin Underwood" wrote in message
...

Yes, I've never understood the logic of the American convention of not
putting the DMY in ascending (or decending) order of significance: either
DMY or YMD. The latter, while much less common, has the advantage that a
date stored as a text string in this format will sort into ascending order
of date.

Since I'm aware of the potential for confusion, I never write a date as
1/2/2005 because I know it could be interpreted as 1 Feb or Jan 2. Instead
I
always write it as 1 Jan 2005 to avoid ambiguity. I suspect that more
Europeans know about the American convention being different (and the need
to avoid ambiguity) than the converse.

Exactly. Working in IT I started to reorganise the company database that I
had inherited into yyyymmdd order in about 1989/1990, with all
displayed/printed dates in the format dd mmm yyyy, long before the whole Y2K
issue had been seriously raised. As a result we had virtually nothing to do
when Y2K arrived!