Comments on: 12/10/2012 – Soup’s On

By: nfeht

nfeht — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:37:46 +0000

i’ve done the same at a non-profit bike shop in philly and it is loads of fun. Unfortunately I’m no longer close enough to continue right now…..miss it.

By: nfeht

nfeht — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:35:57 +0000

There is a reason military format for date is 12 Dec 2012….no confusion

By: Vantastique

Vantastique — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:26:44 +0000

Yeah, that bugs me too. The inconsistency especially when it’s before the 13th of a month. You don’t know if 12/11/05 is December 11 2005, November 12th 2005 or November 5th 2012.
I think in some countries there’s one commonly used standard but of course here in Canada, once again we’re a mix of British and US conventions.

Quite a few years ago I started using the 2012-12-09 standard mostly because it would sort automatically on computers. Also the four digit year was unambiguous. Works well.

By: oyo

oyo — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:11:06 +0000

One person volunteering is great, but when you can get together with like minded people, you can leverage each other’s skills and talents and change the world, (or at least your corner of it).

By: Pops

Pops — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:02:19 +0000

Yolanda, regarding your new calendar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29BoqCMRBFk

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:22:24 +0000

For Chris — March would be MR and May is MY; January is JA, June is JE, and July is JL; and April = AP and August = AG. For months like February, September, October, November, and December, where this is no other month starting with the same letter, the first two letter will work, although a single letter could also suffice

By: Eli

Eli — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:14:03 +0000

ISO 8601 sets a very usable standard for date formats that makes it easier for both humans and computers to use. It goes from biggest to smallest (e.g. 2012-12-10 13:14) which is unambiguous and allows files to be sorted easily by computers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:12:13 +0000

It’s great that Yehuda is going to volunteer at a soup kitchen but I think it is important to remember that soup kitchens as well as a lot of non-profits need volunteers year-round not just the holidays. Cheers!

By: Eli

Eli — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:05:31 +0000

I’m glad Rick started tweeting links to posted comics again today, yay! I’m sad because as I caught up on all the strips I forgot to read without a Twitter reminder link, I found the note about how there’s less than a month left before the next hiatus in the strip. Enjoy your time off Rick & Brian, but remember to tweet it out when you return!

By: Tencon

Tencon — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:59:22 +0000

Usually I agree with you Yolanda, but today I have to disagree.
As a Dyslexic I find numbers relatively easy to use and remember, but letters confuse me and names impossible.

When playing games on the computer I need to save the current game before going into unpredictable/unknown territory and I use the following convention to name the save:
1. day of month
2. month
3. year
4. hour
5. minute

So this instant would be 101212_1754

I recently discovered that my Wife uses the same system when saving files at work as a computer programmer…
Of course if you want even more granularity, you could add the seconds. (I tend to use digital timepieces a lot and have a lot of ‘Atomic’ clocks. My wristwatch is a Casio ‘Wave Ceptor’ that updates it’s crystal clock with the strongest radio timepiece signal from the world-standard clocks.