This is the starting part of Universal Time. The rest of it includes hours,
minutes and seconds with as many decimals as needed for accuracy. Universal
Time is used by astronomers to eliminate all the various confusing civilian
local methods of measuring and reporting time. Each local can be converted from
Universal, of course. With Universal Time there is global agreement on both its
format and its meaning.

steve



Saadat Saeed wrote:

> All in all there is an iso standard somewhere where dates should be wriiten
> in the format YYYYMMDD... that is
>
> 23rd September 2009 will be written as 20090923.
>
> This does makes a lot of sense in the computer world. I mark all my backup
> files in that format. So when I categorise i.e. sort them they are
> automatically sorted year first, then month and then date. Makes a lot more
> sense to archive them with the least amount of information first and then
> moving into the details....
>
> BR/Saadat
>
> Edward C. <edw### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:37db4115@news.povray.org...
> > <note> Please note - It seems the last sentance in my previous post was
> not
> > sufficient, the post should have included <rant> </rant> markers.  I'm
> > deeply sorry for this omission. </note>
> > <question> But if I may restate my still un-answered question:  Which
> short
> > format is/should be used in POV source - or is it not important to discern
> > between the 12th of Janurary and the 1st of December in a given year?
> > </question>
> > <rant> ...grumble grumble... of course if POV were mono-lingual, there
> > wouldn't be ambiguity... mumble mumble...</rant>
> > <aside> BTW:  That Y/M/D is cool, a bit like MSB first format, where D/M/Y
> > is LSB first format, and M/D/Y is.... </aside>
> >
> >

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