- From: Sebastian Mendel <lists@sebastianmendel.de>
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:33:53 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Cyril schrieb: > `Astonishing discovery! > > `Even hundred years have not passed before I have luck in discovering > `disharmony in common date notation. Thus, for example, 20th minute > `of 5th hour is written as "4:19" (☝ begun with last hour's number) > `while 20th day of 5th month is written as "5/20" (☝ begun with > `current month's number). > > `Additional examples of the disharmony: > ` 4 hours, 11 minutes, and 4 seconds are written as 4:11:04 > `while 4 days, 11 months, and 2004 years are written as 5.12.05 > > ` 3rd day in 4th month of the year 2005 is written as 2005.04.03 > `while 3rd second in 4th minute of 5th hour is written as 04:03:02 did you missed that hours, minutes and seconds start from 0 and days, weeks, month start from 1? time represents the timespan since a defined place in time 12:34:13 means 12 hours 34 minutes and 13 seconds after midnight of this day - or just the duration of 12 hours 34 minutes and 13 seconds and date represents a specific date you cannot compare date and time values this way -- Sebastian Mendel www.sebastianmendel.de
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