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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. https://xkcd.com/1179/ -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:13:31 -0500, Sam E
wrote: 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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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 -- Char Jackson |
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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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floppy drive turmoil
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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