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| S. Petrukhin:
--- Quote from: vad on January 01, 2021, 12:45:21 pm --- --- Quote from: S. Petrukhin on December 31, 2020, 01:52:29 pm ---Yes, we write the date according to the degree of importance: after all, more often we need to know the current day, not the year: dd.mm.yyyy --- End quote --- So the same applies to address format in many countries: The recipient is the most important Then the street address Then the rest With one exception, all countries that I lived in follow that format. The exception is Russia :) Most mistakes happen at local post office level. Every once in a while we are getting our mail delivered to neighbor’s mailbox, and time to time they get our mail. I never had an incident with my mail going to a wrong country or state, despite the fact that there are Cambridge towns in many US states, in UK and Australia. --- End quote --- Showing the importance of identity in a mailing address is a bit ridiculous. :) Once again I will repeat: it's probably just a tradition. |
| vad:
--- Quote from: S. Petrukhin on January 01, 2021, 01:09:29 pm ---Showing the importance of identity in a mailing address is a bit ridiculous. :) Once again I will repeat: it's probably just a tradition. --- End quote --- Mail is addressed to addressee (a person, a company, etc) - not the address. Unsolicited mail/spam cases are excepted. Many standards have traditional roots. Different cultures have different traditions though. Russian address format correlates well with other Russian utilitarian traditions. |
| S. Petrukhin:
--- Quote from: vad on January 01, 2021, 02:09:36 pm --- --- Quote from: S. Petrukhin on January 01, 2021, 01:09:29 pm ---Showing the importance of identity in a mailing address is a bit ridiculous. :) Once again I will repeat: it's probably just a tradition. --- End quote --- Mail is addressed to addressee (a person, a company, etc) - not the address. Unsolicited mail/spam cases are excepted. Many standards have traditional roots. Different cultures have different traditions though. Russian address format correlates well with other Russian utilitarian traditions. --- End quote --- I noticed correctly: we have more utilitarian foundations. We, for example, do not smile at a person who is at least indifferent, and we are more open in our feelings. We have a difference between a sincere and obligatory smile. But now everything is changing and the differences are being smoothed out. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: S. Petrukhin on January 01, 2021, 09:53:31 am --- --- Quote from: tooki on January 01, 2021, 12:50:24 am ---I always use ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD) in file names, since an alphabetical sort will be chronological. It makes sense to use it in lots of situations. --- End quote --- No one bothers to store the date inside as it is convenient for sorting, in fact, it is stored as a linear number, but it is shown to the user in a convenient format. Windows, for example, stupidly sorts the date as a string, it's not clear to me. :) --- End quote --- Huh? My point is that ISO date format works great in file names precisely because the OS (be it Windows, Mac, Linux, etc) will sort it as a string, alphabetically, and that with that format, that happens to also be chronological. I'm not talking about the creation, modification, etc. dates stored as metadata. |
| asmi:
--- Quote from: vad on January 01, 2021, 02:09:36 pm ---Mail is addressed to addressee (a person, a company, etc) - not the address. --- End quote --- You write address not for addressee - he/she already knows it, but for (potentially) a lot of carriers, sorting facilities, custom officers, export/import agents, and God knows whom else who will have to touch your package along it's way. None of these people (except maybe those dealing with export/import) care about the person this package addressed to, but they do care about address. |
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