[Tagging] Follow-up on Time Domains

[Martin Vonwald]

2013/1/22 Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>:
> 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?

Ehm..... I'm using it. And not only in OSM. And I doubt I'm the only one.


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

Just look into my calendar: two-character abbreviations.


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

Because it is used? Even pretty often - at least in my perception.


regards,
Martin