[Tagging] Follow-up on Time Domains

Serge Wroclawski emacsen at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 11:51:29 GMT 2013


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com> wrote:

> Surely this is 'internal'.  That is, it's nice that some people can read Mo,
> Tu, We, etc., but for others, they are just 'coded' days of the week.  Date
> producers need to understand the meaning of Mo, Tu, etc. so that they can
> record them properly in the database, but data consumers need to translate
> these to something that can be displayed nicely.

Except why use abbreviations that no one uses elsewhere?

I've never seen two letter abbreviations for days of the week outside
OSM, in any computer system.

So why use a codification that no one else uses, to save a byte?

- Serge



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