Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's exactly the same way I label mine - for the first half. The second half tells me the country. Tina On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > We're on the minority on this I guess you're right, Frank. We Americans. > Date wise. > > Speaking of which I invented my own way of doing it which is how I label my > photos which I can do automatically in adobe bridge > 100809 Is how I'd have today's day. > The tenth year, 8th month, ninth day > With the time tagged on as well > 045119 is 4:51 AM and 19 seconds. > So a photo I shot a few seconds ago would have this as the file name: > 100809_045119. They will line up in both numeric and chronological order in > my computer. > Someday I'll be rich and famous for having thought of this! > > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > mark at rabinergroup.com > > > > From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 08:10:16 +0100 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Today is 8/9/10 > > > > Hi Mark, > > AFAIK North America is the only place in the world to use the > month-day-year > > format, (can anybody correct that??) which is illogical, like > > feet-inches-yards for distance or minute-second-day for shorter times. > > Most places I have visited in the world use day-month-year, which has a > logic > > like inches-feet-miles. > > Japan, and probably other countries in this region(???) use > year-month-day, > > which is the most logical IMHO, and the one I use for photograph files > FWIW. > > It is like miles-feet-inches and is compatible with > hours-minutes-seconds. > > Sensible. > > Frank > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com