[SpamCop-List] Re: spam is NOT 10 days old to me - got it this a.m.

[René Kabis]

Steven Maesslein wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:52:45 -0800, jg coughed into spamcop and left 
> this in <do440n$piv$1 at news.spamcop.net>:
> 
>>In California, 12/7 is Dec. 7, not July 12.
> 
> Pretty much everywhere outside the US and Canada it's July 12th. Either 
> way round, it's ambiguous, and you're not writing for a purely 
> Californian audience. Maybe something less ambiguous like 07/DEC or 
> 07/XII (if Roman numerals are used they represent the month) could be 
> used.

Actually, in Canada the standard is ddMMyy. The only reason that certain 
companies do it MMddyy is because they are direct subsidiaries of US 
companies. In fact, the US is the only country that:

Makes official use of AM/PM (the rest of the world is officially 24hr)
Royally screws up dates (MMddyy instead of the much more logical ddMMyy)
Makes use of Standard measurements in EVERYTHING (even GB is going metric)

>>12M is 12,000, not 12 million.
> 
> 12,000 would be written 12K here and 12M would indeed be 12�10^6.
> 

How does one manage to associate 12M with 12,000??? What possible 
rationale is there? “M” is the SI unit for Million (10^6) across the 
entire planet and every branch of Science and Mathematics. It's as 
simple as that.

SI abbreviations:
Y - Yotta 10^21
E - Exa   10^18
P - Peta  10^15
T - Tera  10^12
G - Giga  10^9
M - Mega  10^6
k - Kilo  10^3
h - hecto 10^2
da - deka 10^1
**base unit** (grams, metre, second etc.)
d - deci  10^-1
c - centi 10^-2
m - milli 10^-3
μ - micro 10^-6
n - nano  10^-9
p - pico  10^-12
f - femto 10^-15
a - atto  10^-18