[Tagging] Follow-up on Time Domains
Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdreist at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 13:54:59 GMT 2013
2013/1/22 Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>:
> Am 22.01.2013 12:51, schrieb Serge Wroclawski:
>
>> 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?
>
> Probably that's once more a German "problem", as in German days of the week
> are usually abbreviated to two letters. (Mo, Di, Mi, Do, Fr, Sa, So).
> I'm not sure if I ever saw that (Mo, Tu, We, Th, Fr, Sa, Su) in English,
> while I'm sure I saw the three-letter variant (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat,
> Sun).
+1 I'd guess so as well, but hey, what's the problem? With 2 letters
we will save a lot of space while remaining unambigous ;-)
cheers,
Martin
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