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Ivan Godard

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Jun 2, 2013, 3:33:38 PM6/2/13
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Tentative dates and topics are 10/16/2013 (the memory hierarchy,
consistency, and coherency); and 2/5/2014 (protection, OS model,
interrupts, and client/server).

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Noob

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Jun 3, 2013, 4:22:22 AM6/3/13
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Ivan Godard wrote:
> Tentative dates and topics are 10/16/2013 (the memory hierarchy,
> consistency, and coherency); and 2/5/2014 (protection, OS model,
> interrupts, and client/server).

<grumble>

United-statesians and the silly middle-endian date format...
ISO 8601 is the one true format.

That and the fierce resistance to metric make baby Jesus cry.

timca...@aol.com

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Jun 4, 2013, 10:26:21 AM6/4/13
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Oh, I think we are inching towards using it...


- Tim

MitchAlsup

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Jun 4, 2013, 12:15:03 PM6/4/13
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On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 9:26:21 AM UTC-5, timca...@aol.com wrote:

I see no movement in that direction. After all we say "Oct 17, 1998"
rathar than saying "seventh Oct 1998".

Mitch

timca...@aol.com

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Jun 4, 2013, 1:51:33 PM6/4/13
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I meant the metric

Should have added a smiley....

- Tim

nm...@cam.ac.uk

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Jun 4, 2013, 3:17:30 PM6/4/13
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In article <c26f127d-2e0e-4f0b...@googlegroups.com>,
As the SOLE purposes for using the all-numeric forms were for
simplicity of automatic sorting, a sane order for those would
be useful. Either 2013/06/04 or 04/06/2013. With the normal,
verbal, forms, there has never been any ambiguity.

Given under my hand on this fourth day of June in the year of
our Lord two thousand and thirteen. Or, for modernists, 4th
June 2013.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Michael S

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Jun 4, 2013, 3:00:41 PM6/4/13
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In two other languages in my daily we are saying exactly that:
"seventh Oct 1998" or "seven in Oct 1998".

Terje Mathisen

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Jun 5, 2013, 8:14:47 AM6/5/13
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Here in Norway we would say "syttende oktober 1998", instead of "syvende
oktober 1998", since "syvende", like "seventh", is quite different from 17.

Way back when, at the time when I personally switched to always using
ISO dates, only Sweden and Japan had done so on a national level.

It is still optional in Norway. :-(

Terje

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- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
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