Re: FILE DATES/NB 4.2

["J.S.Meisami" <MEISAMI@nospam.server.orient.ox.ac.uk>]

Dear All,

Sorry to get in late on this string, but our Institute only just
reopened today.

I thought it had been conclusively proven (somewhere back in
the 19th century? Bishop Usher?) that JC was in fact born in 4
BC?

My version of NB4.2 doesn't give all-numerical dates, but e.g.
DEC 20 99 [time]; and now, JAN 3 100 (last time I looked).
Will changing NB CUSTOM.SET change _all_ the dates,
retrospectively, to four digits?

Julie Meisami
Oxford
>
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Mervyn E. Bennun wrote:
>
> > Which brings me to one of my favourite gripes. I do get
> > confused by styles such as 5.2.2000. Is this the fifth of
> > February (a date I have a profound personal interest in,
> > though as lawyers know it's just hearsay as I am unable to
> > swear that to my personal knowledge and recollection it is
> > the correct anniversary of the event involving me
> > personally which I claim happened on that date some 63
> > years ago) or the second of May.
>
> ..alas - not to fret, Mervyn - while your question is reasonable - at
> least it is logical (different from those who insist that J.C. was already
> one year old at birth - hence the millenium won't turn till 2001 -
> vis-a-vis those irreverent few like yours truly who KNOW we can NOT know
> the EXACT date of the birth of J.C. except as an article of faith - or at
> best probable deduction - which is weak science at its best)
>
> -- But there is a very non-ambiguous system for date tags I've seen for
> years in European radio logs where a date - e.g. an important birthday -
> would be noted as 5-II-37 or 5.II.1937 -- thus Bastille Day that year
> would be noted 14,VII,37 -- where a Roman numeral represents the month.
> Too bad here in the U.S. dates are most often writ: January 1, 2000 --
> which is illogical when 1 January 2000 has the advantage of being
> consistent while saving a comma to boot..! - and those keystrokes add up.
>
> Cheers to all NB-netters for a Wonderful New Year & Bouquets Beyond
>
> Ed Yadz