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Re: Silicon Sea date notation
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Nov 18, 12:15 -0800
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Nov 18, 12:15 -0800
Dan Hogan wrote: > > >From the note at the bottom of *EACH* Silicon Sea Leg. Been there since Leg > 10. > > NOTE: > Lat & Lo = XXd XX.X', Date=DD/MM/YY, HE 9 Feet, Index correction That footnote has already been noted. I quoted it in the message that kicked off this thread. But as you've discovered, it's embarrassingly easy to forget what the footnote says! > Right now I am thinking of using 17/Nov/02. The day can be part of a Almanac > exercise. I suggest 17 Nov 2002 instead, so there will never be any doubt about which number is the year. To my eye, spaces make more pleasing separators than slashes.
