Polls 19/2/07

[Josh '99]

[quote jtwcornell91][quote KeithK]What is this 19th month you speak of?  (Sorry, I just hate European notation in an American context.)[/quote]

Besides which, the best format is 2007-02-19, which alphabetizes correctly.[/quote]Is "alphabetizes" the right word to use when you're talking about numbers?

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[Beeeej]

[quote Josh '99][quote jtwcornell91][quote KeithK]What is this 19th month you speak of?  (Sorry, I just hate European notation in an American context.)[/quote]

Besides which, the best format is 2007-02-19, which alphabetizes correctly.[/quote]Is "alphabetizes" the right word to use when you're talking about numbers?

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[marty]

[quote Beeeej][quote Josh '99][quote jtwcornell91][quote KeithK]What is this 19th month you speak of?  (Sorry, I just hate European notation in an American context.)[/quote]

Besides which, the best format is 2007-02-19, which alphabetizes correctly.[/quote]Is "alphabetizes" the right word to use when you're talking about numbers?

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[/thread-drift antics?];-)

[KeithK]

[quote marty][quote Beeeej][quote Josh '99][quote jtwcornell91][quote KeithK]What is this 19th month you speak of?  (Sorry, I just hate European notation in an American context.)[/quote]

Besides which, the best format is 2007-02-19, which alphabetizes correctly.[/quote]Is "alphabetizes" the right word to use when you're talking about numbers?

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[/thread-drift antics?];-)[/quote]Mission accomplished.

[cth95]

[quote Josh '99]I prefer 8675309.[/quote]

You know Jenny, too?!!

[DeltaOne81]

[quote KeithK][quote marty][quote Beeeej][quote Josh '99][quote jtwcornell91][quote KeithK]What is this 19th month you speak of?  (Sorry, I just hate European notation in an American context.)[/quote]

Besides which, the best format is 2007-02-19, which alphabetizes correctly.[/quote]Is "alphabetizes" the right word to use when you're talking about numbers?

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[/thread-drift antics?];-)[/quote]Mission accomplished.[/quote]

I thought we were supposed to keep politics off this board

[schoaff]

[quote Josh '99][quote jtwcornell91][quote KeithK]What is this 19th month you speak of?  (Sorry, I just hate European notation in an American context.)[/quote]

Besides which, the best format is 2007-02-19, which alphabetizes correctly.[/quote]Is "alphabetizes" the right word to use when you're talking about numbers?

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[geek]
Actually in this case, yeah. It sorts into the correct order when using a character by character comparison which is more akin to alphabetization than it is to a numerical sort. That way you can allow whatever standard alphabetical sort routine you've got to operate on the entire date as a string rather than break it down into individual numeric parts.
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[jtwcornell91]

[quote KeithK][quote jtwcornell91][quote KeithK]What is this 19th month you speak of?  (Sorry, I just hate European notation in an American context.)[/quote]

Besides which, the best format is 2007-02-19, which alphabetizes correctly.[/quote]I personally prefer 19 Feb 2007, which eliminates any possible ambiguity about which number is the month.[/quote]

Well, you could use 2007_02Feb_19 if you didn't mind being redundant.  (I used to do that for academic terms, so 2006_1sp_A300 was a course--Physics A300--I taught in Spring 2006.)