[WikiEN-l] Do we really want to confuse every American who reads the Wikipedia?

[Zoe]

I'm in PST, and I noticed when I read what you wrote that your "at this moment" was still in the future.
Zoe
 Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.com> wrote:The aliasing pipe was meant to humorously link the phrases "Sun Mar 2
19:44:31 PST 2003" and "this moment"; ie, the moment in which I was
writing. (What time zone are you in, that that time was half an hour in
your future?) Also, the phrase "it has no automatic article-selection
mechanism" might be understood to mean that it has no it has no
automatic article-selection mechanism, thus making it unable to "go off"
any time soon.

I still don't understand what, exactly, is confusing about 2 March 2003.
--
Sean Barrett
sean at epoptic.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Zoe
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 19:55
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Do we really want to confuse every American
who reads the Wikipedia?
>
> You wrote: The datebot has been thoroughly tested and is almost ready
to be set ravening among the articles. At [[Sun Mar 2 19:44:31 PST
2003|this moment]] it has no automatic article-selection mechanism.
>
> I read this as saying that you were planning on setting it off at
19:44:31.
>
> Zoe
>
> Sean Barrett wrote:
>
> What is with these straw man attacks? It is NOT going to go off in 30
> minutes. Where in the world did you get that absurd idea? Furthermore,
> 2/3/03 is a non-sequitur -- no one has ever suggested it. The
> discussion involves only 2 March 2003 versus March 2, 2003.
>
> What, exactly, is confusing about 2 March 2003?
>
> --
> Sean Barrett
> sean at epoptic.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org
> [mailto:wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Zoe
> > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 19:28
> > To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> > Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Do we really want to confuse every American
> who reads the Wikipedia?
> >
> > You claim that the discussion is ongoing, and yet the Bot has
already
> been written, tested, and is set to go off in 30 minutes!
> >
> > It's confusing because it is NOT what Ameri! cans write, unless they
> have military training. Try writing 2/3/03 and tell me what the date
> is.
> >
> > Zoe
> >
> > Sean Barrett wrote:
> >
> > So let's discuss. What, exactly, is confusing about 2 March 2003?
> >
> > --
> > Sean Barrett
> > sean at epoptic.com
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org
> > [mailto:wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Zoe
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 19:10
> > > To: WikiEN-l at wikipedia.org
> > > Subject: [WikiEN-l] Do we really want to confuse every American
who
> > reads the Wikipedia?
> > >
> > > Apparently there is a move under way to change EVERY date in the
> > English Wikipedia to "2 March" format from "March 2" format. How did
> > this slip under the radar without a major discussion? It's a very
> > anti-American thing to do.
> > >
> > > Zoe> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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