[gameprogrammer] Re: Juan Carlos Cazar is out of the office.
- From: Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:34:00 -0500
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:20 +0200, Christoph Harder wrote:
> I still don't understand why american write mm/dd/yy but also use
> something like "2nd december 2006", isn't the dd/mm/yy format more logical?
Americans rarely use the form 2nd December 2006. We almost always say
December 2nd, 2006. So, for us, MM/DD/YY is more logical because it
matches the way we do things. Personally, I think that YY/MM/DD is more
logical because it puts the units in order from largest to smallest just
like numbers. Lets face it, this is not a question of logic, but of long
established cultural pattern.
> Same thing with this am/pm in the time, I never know what is when :)
A.M. stands for Anno Meridian and P.M. means Post Meridian. Meridian
refers to a line that runs from the north pole to the south pole. Your
meridian is the line that runs through your location. Anno is Latin for
before and Post means after. Anno Meridian is a time before the Sun
passes over your meridian and Post Meridian is a time after the Sun
passes over your meridian. Noon is when the Sun is directly over your
meridian and midnight is when the Sun is on the other side of the Earth
from you meridian. So A.M. is an abbreviation for a Latin phrase that
means "before noon" and P.M. is an abbreviation for a Latin phrase that
means "after noon".
>
> Anyway, why do Juan Carlos Cazar send this message to the maillinglist?
He did not send it. His email system did. Most email systems allow a
user to set a flag that says "I am on vacation" so that people who send
email to them get a polite message saying that the person is on vacation
and won't get the email for a while. That works fine unless the person
on vacation is on mailing lists. Then, when the mailing list sends him
email, everyone on the mailing list gets his automatic reply. Most of
the time the email system will only send one automatic reply, but I have
seem many situations where every email got an automatic reply and then I
have to go in tell the mailing list to stop sending that person email.
> I don't see any relationship.
There isn't one :-)
>
> Christoph
List Owner
Bob Pendleton
>
>
> David Olsen wrote:
> > For just a moment, I thought he was going to be out for 10 *months*,
> > not 10 days... (I'm used to American date format).
> > -Dave
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Carlos Cazar"
> > <jcazar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 4:01 PM
> > Subject: [gameprogrammer] Juan Carlos Cazar is out of the office.
>
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