WPC Museum to Close

[Andydodge]

Apologies if this is old news but I saw on another site that the Walter P Chrysler Museum is to close on 31/12/12......buggar!...........andyd

[TodFitch]

That is a shame. Only got a chance to visit it once.

If you were using US conventions, we wouldn't have to worry about it as there is no 12th day of the 31st month. Back when I was working for a small company which had OTC (and later Telstra) as a big customer and a significant supplier in Israel I got used to writing dates in the form 31Dec2012 as I found that everyone I was communicating with would understand.

[1940plymouth]

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121129/AUTO0101/211290477/1361/Chrysler-Group-LLC-to-acquire-Walter-P.-Chrysler-Museum

I got this in an email from another forum member this morning

[Plymouthy Adams]

the Mayans say it will be before that...!

[RobertKB]

That is a shame. Only got a chance to visit it once.

If you were using US conventions, we wouldn't have to worry about it as there is no 12th day of the 31st month. Back when I was working for a small company which had OTC (and later Telstra) as a big customer and a significant supplier in Israel I got used to writing dates in the form 31Dec2012 as I found that everyone I was communicating with would understand.

In Canada it can be put both ways as originally we would have done it like the Brits but have also used the American form of dating. It can be confusing especially with a date like 8/6/12. Is that August 6 or June 8. My personal preference is to go day, month, year so I would write today as 30/11/12.

Looks like the museum will be open but only for special occasions. At least the cars and building are safe and hopefully it will open more often in the future.

[1940plymouth]

When I was in the Air Force, we had to date everything year first, then month, the day. 12/11/30 and we had to use Zulu time

[Plymouthy Adams]

the year format in standard military fashion will make the year a 4 digit entry so never to confuse with a day or month yyyymmdd and I still remember one training film where the instructions were you had to use a black pen with black ink..no other color pen with black ink was allowed I guess..

[TodFitch]

When I was in the Air Force' date=' we had to date everything year first, then month, the day. 12/11/30 and we had to use Zulu time[/quote']

I wonder why they needed to call UTC "Zulu".

Or for that matter, why use UTC when GMT is nearly the same thing and ties it into a place on the map.

the year format in standard military fashion will make the year a 4 digit entry so never to confuse with a day or month yyyymmdd and I still remember one training film where the instructions were you had to use a black pen with black ink..no other color pen with black ink was allowed I guess..

I do time tag back up and log files using yyyymmdd in the names. Makes them sort properly when using the standard text sorting algorithms. But if I use that in written correspondence I seem to confuse people.

[Andydodge]

I thought I'd upset the apple cart when I wrote the date..............but what the heck...........I upset people whatever I say............lol..................regards, andyd....btw its 1/12/12.

[Tom Skinner]

They are really closing it to store those Chrysler's in a Bunker to protect them from 12/21/12. (The end of the World scenario).

Once preserved to posterity, Chrysler's will rule the Earth, no more non Mopar Vehicles ever again, hahahahahaha.

Oh well, it felt good when I typed it.

I hope they re-open when funds permit.

Tom

[40P10touring sedan]

the year format in standard military fashion will make the year a 4 digit entry so never to confuse with a day or month yyyymmdd and I still remember one training film where the instructions were you had to use a black pen with black ink..no other color pen with black ink was allowed I guess..

...army?

[Plymouthy Adams]

no...Navy film...nuclear side...