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Old March 26th 17, 12:42 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Stan Brown
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:51:48 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:04:07 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:32:36 +0100, "Linea Recta"
wrote:

As you can see, I don't use the floppy drive very often. I didn't notice it
disfunctioning from 6-1-2017 until yesterday...


I read that date as June 1, 2017, and thought it was odd before
realizing it's really January 6, 2017. :-)



I don't like either method of formatting dates. As far as I'm
concerned, it should be Y-M-D, since that's sortable.


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Old March 26th 17, 12:50 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Monty[_3_]
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:13:31 -0500, Sam E
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On 03/25/2017 04:12 PM, Monty wrote:

[snip]

I don't like either method of formatting dates. As far as I'm
concerned, it should be Y-M-D, since that's sortable.


+1


Sortable when you include the leading zeros, so its 2017-03-25. (or
20170325 since there's now no need for delimiters).


Selecting yyyy-MM-dd automatically includes the leading zeros; and I
would prefer the delimiters be left as they are to improve clarity.
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Old March 26th 17, 08:34 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Char Jackson
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Default floppy drive turmoil

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:51:48 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:04:07 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:32:36 +0100, "Linea Recta"
wrote:

As you can see, I don't use the floppy drive very often. I didn't notice it
disfunctioning from 6-1-2017 until yesterday...


I read that date as June 1, 2017, and thought it was odd before
realizing it's really January 6, 2017. :-)



I don't like either method of formatting dates. As far as I'm
concerned, it should be Y-M-D, since that's sortable.


+1

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Old March 26th 17, 09:05 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
JJ
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 08:34:58 -0500, philo wrote:

Probably looking no further than the BIOS.


It's likely that Windows doesn't redetect the functionality of a floppy
drive like BIOS does with its Floppy Drive Seek setting. And the fact that
OP doesn't notice that the floppy drive isn't properly installed, is
probably because that BIOS setting is set to disabled. Otherwise, the BIOS
would show an error and pause the boot process.
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Old March 28th 17, 03:07 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Joe Pfeiffer
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Char Jackson writes:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:51:48 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:04:07 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:32:36 +0100, "Linea Recta"
wrote:

As you can see, I don't use the floppy drive very often. I didn't notice it
disfunctioning from 6-1-2017 until yesterday...

I read that date as June 1, 2017, and thought it was odd before
realizing it's really January 6, 2017. :-)



I don't like either method of formatting dates. As far as I'm
concerned, it should be Y-M-D, since that's sortable.


+1


And, it's the format you can defend by pointing people at an ISO
standard! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
 




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