Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]eek, you've recreated the Y2K bug! since virtually all of us have data which spans the millennium, and because we're confident that our leica images will continue to be appreciated after 3000 AD, we'll be happier to use full years: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS (values always zero-prefixed, and fields optionally infixed with various punctuation to improve readability, i personally like a dot between the DD and the HH) -rei On 08/09/2010 04:56 AM, Mark Rabiner 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 >